Ben-David, Yehuda (Iodka)

Son of-Tema and Shalom was born on 19.12.1922 in Rehovot, where he completed his elementary school and moved to high school, where he served in the British Air Force and served in Greece, Albania, Malta, He served in the Givati ​​Brigade and during the course of 1948 participated in thirty systems, some of them in the Negev, volunteering to release the road to the winepress and later in the battle to liberate the village of Uriya in the convoy Gal On, the conquest of Agur, and the battles of Tel Arish, Jerusalem and Latrun. For the first time he took part in the “Nachshon” operation: he held Deir Muhsein and launched several attacks, and in the last battle he went with his company to occupy “Mishalat 7” south of the Iraqi-Suweidan police, November 3, 1948). 2) Death wounds from a cluster of bullets that hit his Lev and was brought to rest in the cemetery in Rehovot. The battalion commander mentions Yudka, as they called him, as one of the best fighters in the battalion; The NIF-Israel Foundation wrote in a letter from Nisan Oved to Neveh Oved that it was decided to call one of the neighborhoods on the streets named Neve Yehuda in memory of Yehuda Son of-David.