Bosem, David

Son of Nechama and Menachem, was born in 1901 in Lodz, Poland. After the First World War, when he reached his town in the Balfour Declaration, the 17-year-old left the Gymnasium and joined a group of 105 immigrants who left for Eretz Israel. The hardships of the group’s pleasant way of singing, playing, and its merry cheerfulness. When a crook pretending to be a captain took the money out of Trieste and the boys needed the favors of the Italian authorities, he went with some of the group to work in an agricultural farm in a village near Rome. During the Passover holiday of 1919, David came to Israel and began to work on drying out swamps and paving a road in the Jordan Valley and on the banks of the Sea of ​​Galilee, where he moved to the Gan Shmuel group and settled in. After 15 years of living in the group he left her and went to a single gray life as a laborer in Tnuva, He was devoted to work in Tnuva and faithful to his duty in the Hagana (from the days of Gan Shmuel onwards) and in Mishmar Ha’am (the “People’s Guard”), During the War of Independence, on the 18th of Tammuz 5708 (18.7.1948), when he left his service at Tnuva in Jerusalem, he was killed by a shell on Chancellor Street and buried in Sheikh Bader A. He left a wife, a son and a daughter. On September 10, 1950, he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.