Moshe Jakobovits
Treasury High Rank Officer in Israel (Custom and VAT),
Moshe Jakobovits (Hebrew: משה יעקובוביץ; 15 March 1926 – 29 December 2018) was commander of Masu'ot Yitzhak, a kibbutz in Gush Etzion (the Etzion Bloc) destroyed in the 1947–1949 Palestine war (known in Israel as Israel War of Independence), the last commander of the Gush Etzion settlements during the Israel War of Independence, Chief Customs officer of Haifa between the years 1977–1987, and Consul for Economy and Trade (Customs) in Europe between 1987 and 1990.
Jakobovits was one of two sons of Rabbi Tobias Jakobovits, Czech historian and librarian, and was the cousin of Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth. Jakobovits added Jakobi to his family name (Moshe Jakobi-Jakobovits) prior to his diplomatic mission for the State of Israel.
Childhood
Moshe Jakobovits was born in 1926 in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, son of Bertha (née Petuchowski, of Berlin) and Rabbi Tobias Jakobovits – librarian of the Jewish community of Prague and scholar of Jewish texts. Born to a religious family, Moshe was educated at the Jewish school in his native city. The school was located in the same building in which the family resided, at Jáchymova Street, No. 3, today housing the offices of the Jewish Museum of Prague. In March 1939, days before the entry of the Wehrmacht into Prague, Moshe Jakobovits marked his Bar Mitzvah by ascending to the Torah in the Altneuschul Synagogue in Prague. The venue of the event did not appear on the invitations for the security of invitees. Following his Bar Mitzvah, Moshe joined the Bnei Akiva youth movement.
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