WORLD MACHAL - Volunteers from overseas in the Israel Defense Forces

Albert Avraham Moyal

Albert MoyalSon of Machlouf and Miriam, Albert Moyal he was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1924.  He was orphaned at the age of one-year when his father died and he was obliged to start work after he completing elementary school.  At first, he worked as a shoemaker and then as a merchant, but he grew up in under difficult circumstances.

He immigrated to Israel in 1948 and volunteered to fight in Israel’s War of Independence.

He served as a soldier in the Alexandroni Brigade and fell in the battle of Iraq el-Manshiya on 28th December, 1948, leaving a widow, Esther.

He was buried at Faluja and later laid to rest at the Nachlat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.  

Source:  Translated from the Yizkor website by Joe Woolf.