Today, Wednesday, January 31.1.24, XNUMX, Moshe Bar Haim, Holocaust survivor and owner of the "Einat" restaurant known to Haifa residents as well as visitors from around the country, passed away in Haifa.
הbackground of Moses
Moshe was born in 1933 in the city of Braila, in southeastern Romania, on the banks of the Danube where he lived with his parents and three brothers. During the Second World War, Moshe, his mother, and his little sister fled to a town in Poland, when they heard that the Germans and Romanians were expected to enter the town and perpetrate atrocities on the local Jews. His father was taken to hard labor and his two older brothers to labor camps in Romania. Fortunately, his immediate family survived and at the end of the war, They all returned to their home in Braila, and in 2 immigrated to Israel.
As a graduate, he began his career in agricultural training, engaged in gardening and worked in the nursery of the "Khodori" school. After that, he took a waiter course in Zim's merchant navy and from there actually found himself drawn to the subject of cooking and restaurants.
The period of restaurants
In 1968, he opened the well-known "Einat" restaurant in Haifa Bay, which was named after one of his daughters and whose menu was based on the purity of the folk and traditional food Moshe grew up with in Romania. After that he also opened the restaurant "Mira Bell" in Stella Maris in Haifa. In 1988, he left for the USA, where he was involved in the management of a delicatessen and paid off in the field of meat smoking and restaurants.
In 1993, he returned to Israel and three years later moved the restaurant "Einat" to Ma'at in the Western Galilee. During the restaurant's operation, quite a few famous people visited Moshe and enjoyed his handiwork such as the late Shimon Peres, Muni Moshunov, Gidi Gov, Jordana Arzi and more. The year 2006, you will remember as the cursed year in Moshe's life - his wife Meira, died of a serious illness shortly after Before the Second Lebanon War, when the restaurant was closed under tragic circumstances when a Hezbollah missile hit it directly.
After the destruction of the restaurant, Moshe found himself helpless, without the ability and possibility to restore the restaurant, after encountering resistance from the authorities and the bureaucracy involved. Later, one of his daughters died in tragic circumstances.
In the last years of his life, Moshe lived in a small 2-room apartment in the complex of the "Yad Ezer Chavere" association.
Moshe's funeral
The funeral will take place tomorrow, Thursday 1.2.24 at 12:00 in the "Tel Regev" cemetery (Haifa plot, Harob Hall).
Participating in sorrow .. may his memory be blessed .. I had the privilege as a lawyer to represent Moshe in several proceedings in the courts. And I got to enjoy his homer. And the food he prepared.