Rabbi Moshe Kravitzky, 50, OBM

By COLlive reporter

One of the victims of the Arab terror attack in the southern city of Beer Sheva on Tuesday was Rabbi Moshe Kravitzky, a Chabad chossid aged 50.

In his youth, Belarus-born Krivitski was educated in the Nachlas Har Chabad suburb of Kiryat Malachi, in the branch of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim that Rabbi Mordechai Kozliner founded when he emigrated from the former Soviet Union, with the help of the late Rabbi Zalman Abelsky, director of Chabad of Moldova.

Rabbi Kravitzky was a resident of the Nachlas Har Chabad neighborhood in Kiryat Malachi and went on to become a Shliach and director of Chabad center in Nachal Beka in Beer Sheva.

For years, he also operated the local soup kitchen of the Colel Chabad organization which fed the elderly and people in need on a daily basis.

He was known for his sincerity, smile and his yiras shamayim, a friend of his told COLlive.com. For many years he assisted the chossid R’ Zalman Leib Astulin OBM.

“He was very dedicated to his shlichus,” said Beer Sheva Head Shliach Rabbi Zalman Gorelik. “Together with his family, he invested everything in the community – both materially and spiritually. We are in shock and are pained by this sad news.”

He is survived by his wife and 4 children.

Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.