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Wilk, Moshe-Yigal

Wilk, Moshe-Yigal


Son of David and Tova. He was born in Jerusalem on July 25, 1947. He completed his elementary and high school studies at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Rehavia, was a member of the Scouts movement and was a leader and a battalion leader in it. When he reached the point of being drafted in August 1965, it was only natural for him to choose a parachutist, for he considered the area of ​​the prosecutor to be responsible and a readiness for sacrifice. The broad he always wore on his face, he did not insist on ceremony but rather above it In the middle of compulsory service, the Six-Day War broke out and on the first day of the battles, on the 26th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), he set out with his platoon to conquer the ditches of the outpost Ali Munter, who was on the outskirts of Gaza, was killed in the army’s emergency cemetery in Bari and later transferred to the eternal military cemetery on Mount Hermon Herzl in Jerusalem. After they fell they were promoted to lieutenant. A grove commemorating four officers who fell in the Six Day War in the name of “The Grove of the Four” was planted in the Jerusalem hills by the Jewish National Fund and Moshe Yigal was one of them. Also named after his friends and viewers who fell in the war amphitheater with a Gilad in memory. His apprentices set up a training room for his memory in the Masada tribe and renamed the battalion and named him after him. A book was published in his memory bearing his name. In addition to the book, his name was immortalized in the weekly Yedioth Ahronoth – “Seven Days” – in an article by Ilan Cohen on “Three Gaza Crimes,” in the article “A Minute of Tzfira” in Maariv for Youth, and more.

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