Weinberg, Moshe

Moshe, son of Luba and Chaim, was born on January 1, 1950, in Grodno, in the Soviet Union, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1959. Moshe’s first years were spent in the Soviet Union during the difficult period after the end During World War II, his parents participated in the war and were part of the partisan forces that fought the German enemy, where he studied at the elementary school in Kfar Malal and later completed his studies in the vocational high school Ort Technikum in Givatayim. Upon their arrival, the family encountered special absorption difficulties for immigrants arriving in a new country. But Moshe quickly acclimated with his contemporaries in the residential neighborhood of Hod Hasharon, where the family settled. His friends at the Kfar Malal school received him as one of the group, and he found many friends at the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in Hod Hasharon and was a partner in a wide range of social and cultural activities. He was an outstanding athlete and participated in many competitions, especially in the fields of soccer and basketball, and in the vocational high school Moshe was found to have technical skills and professional skills and was awarded the title of “practical engineer”. Moshe was drafted into the IDF in mid-February 1971. He was proposed to the recruitment center And serve only one who could work in his profession as a Practical Engineer machines, but he declined the offer and volunteered for a combat unit. He was assigned to the Golani infantry brigade and after completing basic training he successfully completed a battalion training course. Moshe played the difficult and dangerous role of a saboteur in a infantry battalion, in perfection and precision and with skill and technical skills. He gained the admiration of his commanders and was accepted and admired by his comrades in the unit. During the Yom Kippur War, his battalion participated in the battle against the Syrians in the Golan Heights. On the 22nd of Tishrei 5740 (October 22, 1973), in the battle to conquer the Hermon position, Moshe was hit and killed. He was brought to eternal rest in the Ramot Hashavim cemetery. Survived by his parents and brother. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the commander of the unit wrote: “The Yom Kippur War was undoubtedly the most difficult one in Israel’s wars, and there was a war on our lives in this country … The Battle of Hermon was perhaps the most difficult battle in this war. We do not try because we can not comfort you with the loss of your son, even though we, too, have a sense of losing a warrior, a feeling that is accompanied by a feeling of respect for us, that we have won your son’s fight In our ranks and honor for a family that has lost such a son. ” His parents set up a theoretical library in his memory, which is used by the youth in Hod Hasharon; His comrades in the unit published a pamphlet in memory of the fallen soldiers who fell in the battle, with the words of friends about his character.