Moshe Rashkes

Moshe Rashkes was a platoon leader in Israel's War of Independence and received a Citation of Valor when he was discharged in 1948 after a serious injury. In 1950, he was named chairman of Israel's Disabled War Veterans Organization, where e was responsible, through 1958, for the rehabilitation of more than six thousand disabled veterans. In 1965, he was named chairman of Israel's Ilan Center for the Physically Disabled, a world-class rehabilitative sports center. Under his leadership, the center became one of the largest and most successful rehab sports facilities in the world. In addition to being a best-selling author of Days of Lead, Rashkes wrote three other highly acclaimed books and was a journalist who covered the Six-Day War. He lived in Herzeliya, Israel until his passing in 2018.