Reuven Moskovitz

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Reuven Moskovitz (born October 27, 1928 in Frumuşica , in Botoşani County , Romania ; † August 4, 2017 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli peace activist .

Life

Moskovitz was born in 1928 in the northern Romanian shtetl Frumușica. At the age of eleven, he said he was “driven into the ghetto ”. He survived the Holocaust despite persecution and displacement. After the war, he helped other Jews flee Romania to Palestine on behalf of his Zionist youth organization . In 1947 he managed to immigrate to Palestine, where he co-founded the Kibbutz Misgav on the Lebanese border. He was also one of the founders of the peace village Newe Shalom (see below). He worked as a dredger and in road construction, studied history and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and became a teacher. With the help of a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , Moskovitz completed a year of study at the Free University of Berlin in 1974 .

As a tour guide, Moskovitz led groups of foreign tourists, schoolchildren and students through Israel and organized trips for Jewish and Arab families through Europe.

Moskovitz died on August 4, 2017 in Jerusalem in the presence of his family.

Israeli peace movement

Moskovitz believed Israel's policy towards the Palestinians was wrong. In his opinion, humiliation and use of violence by the Israelis should provoke more and more Palestinian violence, according to Moskovitz. Until recently, he fought this policy as violating human rights and dangerous. After the Six Day War he became secretary of the newly formed "Movement for Peace and Security".

At the end of September 2010, Moskovitz was a passenger on the ship Irene to the Gaza Strip from Northern Cyprus ; Co-organizer was the organization European Jews for a Just Peace . Moskovitz considered it "a sacred duty, for me, as a survivor, to protest the persecution, imprisonment and oppression of so many people, including over 800,000 children in Gaza." The little British-flagged sailor Irene , manned by seven Jewish activists and two journalists, was intercepted by ten ships of the Israeli navy and diverted to Ashdod .

Newe Shalom - Wahat al Salam

Moskovitz was a co-founder of the Arab-Jewish peace village Newe Schalom - Wahat al Salam ("Oasis of Peace"). Moskovitz left the village, but was in constant contact with the residents.

As a new project for Newe Schalom, he was planning an alternative museum: “Peace Rooms - Peace Ways”, in which Israelis, Palestinians and Germans were to be encouraged to perceive each other in a new way beyond the given patterns of their history.

Federal Republic of Germany

During his first stay in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1974, he found a lot of interest and solidarity for Israel. He made friends and fellow thinkers, especially in the context of " Aktion Sühnezeichen ". Since then he has considered it his duty to encourage the Germans who strive to come to terms with their historical burden. They should overcome their reluctance and recognize their responsibility to fight injustice wherever it happens, including in Israel. Violence cannot be tolerated on either side of the conflict, especially since it does not promise a solution.

He initiated the establishment of the German-Israeli-Palestinian Society (DIPF) in Berlin.

For 40 years, Moskovitz came to Germany regularly, gave lectures in political circles, in academies and communities, and spoke at schools as a contemporary witness .

Romania

Reuven Moskovitz also frequently returned to his native country. Many summers he and his wife Varda came to the Romanian village of Samtul Floresti. They brought young people from Germany with them to help rebuild the buildings for the kindergarten and school, to learn with the children, to make music, to play theater.

Moskovitz founded the German-Romanian Society in 1992 .

Honors

In 2001 Moskovitz was awarded the Mount Zion Award and in 2003, together with Nabila Espanioly and the " Initiative Religious for Peace ", the Aachen Peace Prize. The AMOS Open Church Prize (OK) went to him in 2011. He has often been mistakenly called Dr. Reuven Moskovitz, but in fact never submitted a dissertation to a university.

Fonts

  • The long road to peace. Germany - Israel - Palestine. Episodes from the life of a peace adventurer . Verlag am BEATion / Randlage, Berlin, 5th edition 2005, ISBN 3-928357-05-0
  • For reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis. In: For a world without war. Are there ways to a secure peace? Contributions to the 14th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 11, 2006. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers , Dresden 2006, issue 79, pp. 53–54.
  • A life for justice, love and reconciliation . Edited by Martin Breidert and Ekkehart Drost. Emden 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049873-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reuven Moskovitz in conversation: “Peace must be possible” . Aachener Zeitung , May 5, 2015, accessed on August 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Susanne Knaul: He firmly believed in the power of the word. In: the daily newspaper . August 7, 2017, p. 10 , accessed August 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Un bateau de militants pacifistes juifs en route pour Gaza . AFP report at France24 , September 26, 2010, accessed on August 8, 2017 (French).
  4. ↑ Report of the Austrian Standard of September 28, 2010
  5. ↑ Homepage. German-Israeli-Palestinian Society, archived from the original on April 23, 2015 ; accessed on August 7, 2017 .
  6. ^ Website of the German-Romanian Society, accessed on August 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ Michael Seibt: AMOS Award 2011 to Sumaya Farhat-Naser and Reuven Moskovitz . Open Church (OK) , March 20, 2011, accessed August 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Moskovitz, Reuven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Frumușica , Romania
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 2017
Place of death Jerusalem