Son of Avraham and Lily. He was born in New York, New York, on February 21, 1950, and began studying there in a Jewish elementary school, but when he reached the age of nine he immigrated to Israel with his mother and brother. Henrietta Szold, and later on in the Arlosoroff School, where he was a young man who was a young man who had a strong sense of humor and a strong sense of humor, and he began studying at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Rehavia. This also matched his desire to learn and understand our neighbors and his strong desire to contribute to the creation of a relationship He was gifted with excellent memory and a talent for languages, and was well versed in various subjects, and was gifted with musical talent and studied piano and clarinet at the Academy of Music, and was a member of the Jerusalem Youth Orchestra for many years. He was not a member of a youth movement, but he had many friends who spent time with them on trips around the country. He loved to meet interesting people and spent a lot of time reading literature, philosophy and science. In 1966 David won the Lions Club Prize for his essay on peace. When the Six-Day War began, David was still in high school at the Gymnasium, and his friend says that immediately after the liberation of Old Jerusalem, David drew him to visit the Western Wall. “When I first arrived in Jordan, David jumped to the east bank, touched the ground and returned, saying,” I was there. “After completing his studies at the Hebrew Gymnasium, he wondered what his career would be in the IDF. David was drafted into the IDF at the end of August 1967 and was rejected for his academic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied Middle Eastern studies and political science. On his trips with his friends in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip, his teachers and colleagues appreciated him greatly and in his third year of studies at the university was intended to be an assistant to the research of his professor, Professor Kiester, who had designed him to decipher a certain medieval document, There was the manuscript lying in front of me Professor David Kiester, because he did not find another student to carry out the task, David contacted friends with Arabs and understood that he believed in true friendship with them and demanded that they be brought closer to him as citizens of Israel. “I want to be Israel’s first ambassador to Cairo,” and once he said with a laugh: “I want to be Israel’s first ambassador to Cairo.” In his desire to deepen understanding between Jews and Arabs and bridge the gap between them, he would publish poems and translations of poems. He has written articles on Islam and topics in philosophy. He was an original songwriter, and after his fall, poems in Hebrew, English and Arabic were discovered in his estate, as well as essays about the existence of some of them that his relatives and close friends did not know. On the 5th of Tishrei 5710 (October 5, 1969), prior to the completion of a basic officer’s course, which he underwent as part of the Academic Reserve,. Was laid to rest in the cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In the memorial book “Nizkor”, published by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and its student union, edited by Yehuda the civilian, his life story was recorded and some of his poems were printed; At the Hebrew University, a room was named after him in the Afro-Asiatic Department; At Beit Hahayal in Jerusalem, his parents and friends set a corner for classical music – also in his memory; The Prime Minister’s Office awards an outstanding prize to outstanding children in a Jewish-Arab camp in Acre; A scholarship in his memory was given to a student in the Department of Orientalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
