David, Tzachi

Son of Carmela and Ezra. He was born on September 18, 1982 in Tel Aviv and grew up in the Hadar Yosef neighborhood, the eldest brother of Leila and Naama. Tzachi was very attached to his family and spent most of his spare time with them. In particular, he became attached to his mother, Carmela, and when she led him to the kindergarten he did not let her leave him in the garden and asked to join her everywhere. Tzachi began his studies at the David Yellin Elementary School, and continued to work in middle and high school, “Amal – Lady Davis”. The quality of volunteering to help others was rooted in him from childhood. He loved to help everyone and take care of every animal in the neighborhood, and did everything to get anything in return. In November 2000 Tzahi enlisted in the IDF and volunteered to serve in the Border Police with the aim of giving and contributing as much as he could and to protect and protect the citizens of the country. Tzahi served as a combat soldier at the ‘Ibtan’ base and planned to take part in various courses within the framework of the Border Police and to advance. A few days before he was killed, he was on vacation at home, celebrating his nineteenth birthday and asking his mother to make him a birthday cake so he could bring it to his friends who remained at the base. With the cake returned to his base and his friends and commanders gave him a birthday party. The joy was great and Tzachi was happy. When it became clear to him that the guards at the guard’s post had not received a cake, he went down to bring them some of them, and two Palestinian snipers, who had lurked about 25 meters from the guard post, hit him and killed him. Together with him was Officer Andrei Zeldkin, who was killed on 11 September 2001. He was nineteen and four days old when he fell. Tzachi was laid to rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery. The personal inscriptions on his tombstone were engraved: “As an angel you walked among us – pure and pure, Ateret and Zohar for your family – a single generation.” A tree in his memory was planted in the forest of the Jewish National Fund in the Jerusalem hills by the Hod ve-Hadar community that belongs to the Masorti Movement.