David, Asher

Son of Hendel and Israel, was born in 1921 in the city of Ditro, Transylvania (then Romania), and received a religious education. He attended elementary and high school and “yeshivot”. He chose the weaving profession. Upon the annexation of the region to Hungary, conscription was enlisted into the Hungarian army and was tormented by the hardships of the war and the decrees. He was sent to labor camps. After the liberation he aspired to immigrate to Eretz Israel. He arrived in Israel in 1947 on the illegal immigrant ship Knesset Yisrael, but was sent to Cyprus and was detained there for a year until his turn to immigrate to Israel. Upon his arrival in Israel, he worked in a factory for casting tiles in Haifa Bay and joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi underground. After enlisting in the Alexandroni Brigade after the establishment of the State of Israel, he took part in reconnaissance operations in the Triangle, in Marbim (near Rishpon) and in conquests (Pardes Nabulsi) and from there to the Negev. During the “Horev” operation, a “liquidation” operation was carried out to liquidate the “Faluja pocket” in which Nasserah was an Egyptian brigade. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered and attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle, on 26 December 1948, after taking the anti-tank anti-tank anti-tank missile from the sergeant and continuing to advance towards the enemy in order to destroy an Arab position, he was hit in the head by a shrapnel and fell. Who was brought to rest in a grave in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.