Cherkassky, David (Dudu)

Son of Hanna and Moshe, was born with a twin sister on the 12th of Tishrei 5626 (September 30, 1925) in Haifa. He studied at the elementary school in Kfar Azar, at the Nachlat Ganim school and at the Max Payne vocational school in Tel Aviv, and in 1942 graduated from the vocational school as a needle and joined the Jewish settlement police. In 1944 he began active service in the Palmach as commander and instructor. He spent most of his time in the Galilee. David saw his future in agricultural settlement in moshav Ovodim and was active in organizing the moshav (Peled), where he and his friends set up Ramot Naftali and was one of the builders of the fortress. ), Acquired a thorough knowledge of Arabic and English, and for some time served as a mukhtar of Ramot Naftali, visited nearby Arab villages, traveled extensively in the Galilee and the Negev, knew every trail in the Galilee and knew the surroundings beyond Syria and Lebanon, The book was in Nebi Yusha, in his pockets were diagrams, but he pretended to be a farmer interested in vegetation and was released. During the period of the revolt: the liberation of the Atlit immigrants and the bombing of the radar stations in Givat Olga and the Carmel, a room for Syria in order to free immigrants from the gendarmes and to immigrate to Eretz Israel and was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Workers’ Union and its group leader in Dafna, From the Palmach regiment, he was meticulous in his basic combat education and tired of the external military impression, knew how to sue his subordinates and himself volunteered for every mission and was one of the first to attack. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he served in the Palmach’s Third Battalion, later in the Yiftah Brigade, and took part in the raid on Sasa, one of the rioters’ centers, and ordered the repulsions of the attack on Lehavot Habashan. He came home only rarely and never told of his part in the activities, and even when he was wounded in the leg he did not discover it. The burglary department, which launched its second attack on the Nebi Yusha police station, when the attack began, and when the first man who approached the building and placed the explosive material exploded, With his explosive device, was wounded by the enemy grenade and called on his men to detonate the explosives on his body, but his command was not heard in the storm of battle, and he was taken to an eternal rest in a cemetery in Nebi Yusha, On April 2, 1948, it was stated: “The Haganah units set out to destroy the enemy from the Nebi Yusha police force. The sappers reached the wall of the building and here the enemy felt them and threw grenades at them from close range. The sappers were hit and immediately opened fire from automatic weapons. The Haganah members displayed courage and many heroic deeds. David Cherkassky, who was the commander of a squad of sappers, was hit by a grenade near the wall of the building, and when he was wounded and paralyzed, he ordered his men to detonate the explosives on his body and carry out the mission. Their commander from the spot marked for the explosion was hit by all the stretchers who approached him, the blast was halted and the enemy managed to increase the fire and the battle moved to an open area. “