DAVID MORAG: a diplomat, a musician, a Mentsch

Early life   David Morag (4 July 1925 – 6 April 2025), né David Morgenstern, was an Israeli diplomat who served in Israel's Foreign Service between 1962 and 1987.   Since 1948, David Morag served as a voluntary secretary to the Israeli embassy in Rio de Janeiro.  Born 4 July 1925, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as an only child to his late parents Kreina Lerner and Haim Morgenstern. Childhood in the neighborhood of São Cristóvão, Federal District in then Brazilian Capital Rio de Janeiro.   His father Haim Morgenstern was born in the Novoselytsia region, a part of old Bessarabia belonging originally to Bukovina (Austro-Hungarian Empire), that became part of Ukraine/USSR after 1918 , and nowadays has borders with Moldova.   Kreina Lerner, arrived in Brazil in 1924, and met Haim, who had immigrated some years before. Kreina parents, Yehuda and Ita Reiza Lerner, lived in a small town called Zăbriceni , in Bessarabia, today's Moldavia. They had ...