Zaharoni, Moshe

Son of Bluma and Yaacov, was born on the 19th of Adar, March 11, 1928, in Tiberias. He graduated from elementary school in Tiberias, and began to attend high school there. He was a member of the “Hanoar Haoved” youth movement. He loved literature and music, and tried to convey these feelings to his friends, to create cultural life in city. He was a young fighter, who remained in the city during the winter of 1948, during the siege of Jewish Safed, where the chances of the Jews were bleakest, within the hostile Arab sea. He was one of its active and dedicated defenders. In his great energy, he said that he wanted to establish a daily newspaper in Safed, so that his reliable knowledge would stand in the way of rumors of panic in the city. In the meantime, he took part in the separate expenses of Kol Safed, which was issued by the local Haganah command. He took part in standing guard over the Jewish quarter in the defensive post. Moshe fell on the 7th of Nissan, April 16, 1948, when he went to visit wounded members in the hospital. He was hit by a burst of bullets that entered the dining room. He was brought to rest in the cemetery in Ginosar.