Ben Ruby and Eliot. Born on 8 June 1973 in Herzliya, a young brother of Isabelle, Shaul and Eran, he moved to Netter, where he began his studies at the age of nine, and when his parents separated, David moved to Tel Aviv with his mother David moved to the “Thelma Yellin” School of Arts in Givatayim, where he began to play in a forest fund at the Music Center in Jaffa, and over the years he played in the Tel Aviv Symphony Orchestra “Of the Thelma Yellin Music Center and Orchestra, where he was a first horn player and participated in the orchestra’s concerts abroad, and during his last years in high school, David also studied musical conducting, In this. In November 1991, David joined the IDF. He was not interested in a musical project offered to him and chose combat service, in the Combat Engineering Corps. After completing his training as an outstanding soldier, he was sent to the NCO course and graduated as an outstanding apprentice. In his fourth year in the army, David held the position of company commander in a non-commissioned company course and an operational company in Hebron, usually reserved for a veteran company commander. After his discharge from the army David traveled to South America for a few months, and when he returned he began his studies at Tel Aviv University, in philosophy and psychology. David had a propensity for Greek philosophy, he was very interested in the writings of Aeschylus and Plato. One of his favorite modern writers was Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote among others “Slaughterhouse 5” and “Breakfast of Champions”. In his home, David had a large collection of books of philosophy and psychology, Greek plays, and many classical discs-he loved the works of modern romantic composers like Mahler and Brahms. In 1998, David was asked by the Chairman of the Student Union to coordinate the struggle to reduce the tuition fees, and took the position with great responsibility, and conducted a long and concerted struggle until they reached a compromise – he was responsible for organizing demonstrations, managing the various headquarters, And that the hunger strike is 10 kilograms less and was stopped several times by the police. At the end of the struggle, David was asked by the Student Union to become an academic coordinator of a secular pre-military preparatory program for young leaders established at Kibbutz Metzer in the Golan Heights. As part of his job, he worked to instill values, ethics and philosophy for youth through “Chavrutaot”, which he held until late at night, while at the same time working on environmental issues in the Golan Heights, including recycling projects that operated in schools and in the project of cleaning the streams. In addition to his activities in the Golan Heights, David began studying for a master’s degree at Tel Aviv University in the field of the philosophy of education, and also worked at the university as a practitioner of undergraduate students in logic At the university he met Karni “David began his career in the Golan Heights when he began to take an interest in cycling, cycling and road cycling, and he made his way there by riding on his bike. He also drove dozens of kilometers every day on the roads and paths of the Golan HeightsIn February 2002 David went to reserve duty in Samaria. In preparation for the service, he was asked to ask for a postponement, but he replied in the negative, claiming that he could not look in front of his students who enlisted when he himself rejected his enlistment. He went out for a month-long service, with the IDF Code of Conduct on his backpack, and on July 3, 2002, David was killed in operational activity and was stationed with his soldiers at a checkpoint north of Ofra on the way to Nablus. Opened fire at the checkpoint and killed ten people, including David, with whom he was killed: Captain Ariel Hovav, Sergeant Major Rafael Levi, Sergeant Eran Gad, Major Kfir Weiss, Sergeant Avraham Ezra, Major Yochai Porat, And the citizens – Sergey Torov, Vadim Balagula and Yitzhak Didi. At twenty-nine David was falling. He was laid to rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery. Survived by his parents, sister and two brothers. On June 8, 2002, the date of David’s birthday, a concert was held in memory of his mother, the university administration and the Student Union. The concert, to commemorate David’s legacy and love for life, took place on the lawn of Tel Aviv University.
