Aluf, David

Son of Yosef and Susan. He was born in the city of Izmir, Turkey, and immigrated with his family to Israel in 1949. He attended elementary school in son of-Dor, where he lived, and was an active member of the Hanoar Haoved movement and, over time, David was drafted into the IDF in November 1963 and volunteered to serve in the Paratroopers Brigade. During his service he underwent many courses and was supposed to undergo an officer’s course. After his discharge from military service he tried to integrate into civilian life, but the yearning for uniform and active life filled him. Together with some of his friends, David joined the Border Police. In his new unit, he underwent a course for squad commanders, a sabotage course and a course for thrones operators. He spent two years of activity in the Border Police. After he was released, he decided to go home. He studied regrets in a course on behalf of the Ministry of Labor and was hired by the Soltam factory. Then he married him too. He was called for periods of reserve service and his friends and commanders remember him as a superb soldier, with a strong will and a sense of exemplary volunteer who always helped his friends. He excelled in a sense of exemplary responsibility for the equipment he was entrusted with. In early May 1970 he was called to active reserve duty and his wife was then in her ninth month of pregnancy. When his daughter was born, he received a special leave, visited his wife and daughter and brought them home, and immediately returned to the unit to complete the reserve service. On Tuesday, 7 June 1970, Corporal David fell in battle in the Golan Heights, when he felt, while shelling the Syrians, to save the machine gun that was in charge of him. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. He left a wife and a daughter. In a letter of condolence to the family, his commander wrote: “We will always remember his image as a brave and devoted soldier who even found his death when he displayed courage when he wanted to save a machine gun under heavy bombardment.” His name is engraved on the monument commemorating the fallen in the Golan Heights.