Ben David, Daniel

Daniel, the youngest son of Aliza and Binyamin Son of David, was born on the 17th of Elul 5728 (10.9.1968) in Moshav Ahituv. In mid-November 1986 Danny enlisted in the IDF’s Paratroopers Brigade and served as a lieutenant. He loved the army and the Paratroopers Brigade in particular. On August 12, 2006, he waited with his unit for the order to enter Lebanon, and the soldiers found refuge from the hot sun near the cemetery wall on Kibbutz Kfar Giladi. Katyusha rockets were fired; Hezbollah hit them directly, and Danny was critically wounded and died on the way to the Ziv hospital. Danny was thirty-eight years old when he fell, and was brought to eternal rest in the Ahituv cemetery, leaving a wife, two sons and a daughter, two sisters. He was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant.