Son of Moshe and Miriam. He was born on July 11, 1921, in the Beit Hakerem neighborhood of Jerusalem. His father, Moshe, who was the darling of Jerusalem, designed as a teacher and educator the spiritual image of many of the young people of Jerusalem, and his mother contributed her time and energy to the common good. After the father’s death, she left her home and joined the Guber family in the Lachish region. Lived in a ramshackle shack with no water or electricity, taught the new immigrants Hebrew and arithmetic and guided them with all their difficulties. The house he grew up in was filled with culture and love of Israel. David absorbed this special atmosphere from his youth and he outlined his future path. During the riots of 1929, the Arab rioters surrounded the nearby town of Deir Yassin and, in view of the armed rioters and the helplessness of the British authorities to protect peaceful residents, David decided to do so in order to strengthen the Jewish defense force. He attended elementary school near Rehavia High School, where he continued his high school studies. As a child he was a member of the Scouts movement and joined the Haganah. And later in the Hagana was Yigael Yadin, who later became the IDF’s second chief of staff. Yadin was guided by David for long walks around Jerusalem, the Judean Desert and the Jordan Valley. These tours strengthened David’s emotional connection with the country and nurtured the love of the homeland. When he was a student, David excelled in sports and chess, and he was predicted to have a brilliant future in chess. But more important things demanded David’s attention. At the age of 13, he swore allegiance to the Haganah and spent his years in the Gymnasium during the 1936-1939 riots. He divided between studies and activity in the Hagana service, guarding, patrols and other missions. After completing his studies he enrolled at the Hebrew University and at the same time went to the Haganah commanders course in Kiryat Anavim. After the course, he devoted most of his time and energies to the Haganah in Jerusalem and worked to protect the potash plant in the northern Dead Sea and train the workers in self-defense. David and his unit took part in all the organized activities of the Yishuv in Palestine against the “White Paper” policy adopted by the British. In 1941, he completed his officers’ course, was appointed commander of a platoon in Jerusalem and joined the Palmach, the enlisted arm of the Yishuv, in 1944. In 1944, , And until 1949 served as deputy editor of the IDF magazine “Systems.” In 1951, he completed a senior officers’ course and was transferred to the IDF Training Department at the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1953, David was appointed commander of the School of Command and Staff, and when the school was established, David was appointed head instructor and later deputy commander.In the middle of 1955, when the Fedayon cells were rampant in Israel, David left the Safra and took the latter as deputy commander The Givati Brigade, which was in charge of guarding the residents of the country, was transferred to the Golani Brigade as deputy commander of the brigade, and during the operation he commanded the force that conquered Rafah. . David was responsible for research in armor in Arab countries, especially in Egypt, and in the field of Soviet military doctrine, as applied in Arab armies. Due to his sharp intelligence and analytical ability, David dealt with these questions and found solutions to them, thus contributing greatly to the fact that the IDF was well prepared and trained when the Six-Day War broke out. After the war, he was sent to serve in the important position and responsibility of the IDF Attaché in Washington. With his peace of mind,His good spirit, his optimism, and especially his analytical ability, succeeded in succeeding in his difficult task. The people in the United States with whom he had been in close contact appreciated him very much. Despite a deterioration in his physical fitness, David continued his work tirelessly. He had two Lev attacks and he recovered from them and continued his work until he fell down. On December 23, 1969, Brigadier General David died during his service from a Lev attack and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. He left a wife, two daughters and a son. At the memorial ceremony for David, the head of Military Intelligence said: “In the insane race of life, where there is almost no restraint, we are commanded not to forget that everything is based on man and the relations between man and his friends. – David loved life, was lively, alert, sensitive to everything around him, and he loved the whole life, the active life in his role in the IDF, which preceded him for all , The warm family life he enjoyed, political life, cultural life – he was interested. The land he grew up on – his parents’ home in Beit Hakerem in Jerusalem – prepared him for a comprehensive view of things, issues and problems, and therefore his approach to the issues was comprehensive and comprehensive. The general culture and Hebrew culture were always felt in the full sense of these words, and this was evident not only in conversations, in his attitude toward the book and the theater, but also in his relations with people inside and outside the IDF. Who, due to his sharpness of mind and the ability to discern the subtlety, had the precious gift of distinguishing between the essential and the care, and as he knew how to take care of the matter, he was able to honor and cherish the main thing and concentrate his attention and effort on him. Boldly, firmly, but tactfully, with all his activity, his ferment and his alertness, Maou Dudik was a security man on the way, from the Hagana to the IDF representative in the United States capital, and until the day of his death he was connected and identified with all his soul with the security problems of the Jewish people “We will remember Dudik the man, the friend, the soldier and the commander – alive, active, lively, alert, as we have always seen him.” His friends and friends set up in memory of David Keren to finance a scholarship in his name, . The subject of this scholarship was determined by David’s work, namely the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. The scholarship, which includes tuition and subsistence allowance for three years, will be awarded to a research student for the purposes of his master’s degree MA or Ph.D. The initiators of the fund aspire to give priority to a discharged officer from the permanent army; David’s articles of appreciation, personality and work have been published in many newspapers in Israel.
