Yawel, Moshe-Yosef
Was born on November 18, 1926 in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and at the beginning of World War II, at the age of 13, was among the Jewish children who managed to reach England. As an adolescent he was recruited to work in the coal mines. He was overworked and had a chronic illness. Moshe’s father managed to survive the horrors of concentration camps and death. He emigrated to Israel, but was captured by the British and exiled to Mauritius with his sister, both of them survivors of the “fungus”. In 1944, when his father returned from the deportation, his son immigrated to Israel and joined the Saad group, where he worked in agricultural and service industries, and spent most of his leisure time reading. Upon the outbreak of the riots, he served as liaison with the British army stationed in the area. They saw him as a proud man, with a firm stance and respect for his people. He served in the Palmach once upon the establishment of the State of Israel, and was sent to the observation post on the roof of the security house in the group, Moshe Yosef was seriously wounded in a traffic accident on the 26th of Av 5748 (August 31, 1948) when he returned from a visit to the district doctor and died a few hours later. (29.10.1950) was transferred to eternal rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery
