Vansover, Moshe Aharon (Moshele)

Son of Sara and Yehiel, was born on December 26, 1923 in Poland, and in 1934 immigrated to Israel with his parents. After completing his studies at the Amami school in Tel Aviv, he joined Hanoar Haoved and worked there even after he grew up. His friends affectionately called him “Moshele.” Despite the sharp contrasts between his father and him in matters of social outlook, he was very devoted to the family. When his father volunteered for the army during the Second World War and was captured by the Germans, Moshe devoted himself to hard work (he was a clerk in the Tel Aviv Apothecary Bank) to help support the family and become a father and educator to his brothers and sisters. The burden of duty and responsibility gave him more seriousness than his age. He was comfortable with his friends, lenient in their manner with them, obedient to orders and right to fulfill duties, though he did not hide under his tongue critical opinions that were in favor of the subject at issue. From 1939 onwards he was an active member of the Hagana, in a full mobilization of the Haganah enlisted during World War II and later in the service of the Shai. On the day after the United Nations General Assembly decided to partition the country, he served in the defense of Tel Aviv and its environs, and later in one of the Givati ​​Brigade battalions, and fought in the battles of Latrun and the south and the northern Negev, He was the commander of a jeep in the Samson Foxes, and at the time of their retreat in the battle from Bet-Afa he remained with the company commander Aryeh Kutzer in the last jeep that covered the retreating soldiers. A mine in the village’s introduction on the 9th of Tammuz 5708 (16.7.1948). On December 29, 1948, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in the village of Warburg.