Campi, David (Dario)

Son of Iris and customs, was born on 13.8.1924 in the city of Trieste, Italy, to his father who was born in Poland and to a Christian, Italian mother. David graduated from elementary school and came closer to Judaism only with the rise of anti-Semitism in Italy. He went to training, worked in the shipyard Trieste and in January 1940 immigrated to Israel. His parents perished in the Italian diaspora. Givat Brenner was his first stop in Israel. He was educated in a group of immigrant youth and worked in frameworks and mechanics. After training in Ashdot Ya’akov, he joined the “Revivim” group in Rishon Letzion, and with him moved to settle in ‘Asalog in the Negev. He had “golden hands” and was able to engage in any work: driver, tractor, weapon, electrician, electrician, watchmaker and more. During the War of Independence, when the siege of the kibbutz began, he learned another work: Habla, where he later found his death. On 11.6.1948, the first day of the truce, an operation was planned in Bir-Asluj and David was attached to the fighting group. Of the six members of the group who participated in the occupation, he remained alive and the next day he walked all day in the occupied village and engaged in fortification and mining. Before the second truce began, the enemy attacked the outpost, and when the water pipe was hit, David climbed onto the tower and closed the water tank so that the precious liquid would not be wasted. On August 19, 1948, David tried to blow up an arson pan and an accident in which his clothes were set on fire and he was all in flames. On the way to Ruchama, to which he was transported by armored vehicle, he was tormented in agony, and on the 14th of Av 5708 (August 19, 1948), he died of his wounds. He was laid to rest in the Revivim military cemetery.