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Moshe âMoshkoâ Moskowitz (L), Shlomo Neâeman (R)
The Jewish People and the State of Israel lost a true giant this week with the passing of Moshe âMoshkoâ Moskowitz ZâL, who died at the age of 96. For more than eight decades, and even before the establishment of the State, Moshko dedicated his life to fighting for the Land of Israel, establishing Jewish communities, building educational institutions and Torah centers, and much more.
Moshko was synonymously tied to the Gush Etzion bloc, as at the age of 20, he was part of the core group of pioneers who founded the community of Masuâot Yitzhak in 1945. When Gush Etzion fell at the beginning of the war of Independence, Moshko was on a mission to Cyprus, assisting Jewish families in internment camps immigrate to Israel, despite the ban imposed by the British on Jewish immigration.
Moshe Moskowitz speaks at a conference in Kfar Etzion, November 3, 2015.
Moshe (Moshko) Moskowitz, an Israeli educator, and activist, one of the founders of the Har Etzion Yeshiva and the renewed Jewish community of Gush Etzion, a founder of the Zomet Institute, who served as the head of the Shafir Regional Council as well as the Efrat Local Council, died at age 96 on Sunday.
Moskowitz’s life’s work began before the establishment of the State of Israel, when, as a member of the gar’in (nucleus) of the Masu’ot Itzhak settlement that was established in Gush Etzion in 1945 and was destroyed with the fall of the gush at the hand of the Jordanian Legion in the War of Independence.