Edni (Lichter), David (“Shlomo”)

He was born in 1919 in Austria, where he received his education. David belonged to the Betar youth movement and, after the annexation of Austria to Germany, succeeded in 1938 in immigrating to Eretz Israel in the Viennese immigration organized by Moshe Galili, where he joined the Betar recruitment company in Be’er Ya’akov and later worked in diamond polishing. David was a member of the Lehi underground and was known as “Shlomo” . In 1946, the “Resistance Movement” was formed in Eretz Israel, which united the three Irgun and Lehi underground organizations that jointly carried out the Mandatory government institutions. On the 19th of Sivan, June 18,1946), a day after the “Night of the Bridges” in which ties and bridges between the Land of Israel and its neighbors were severed, the Lehi unit attacked the railway workshops in Haifa Bay. The incursion into the workshops was carried out flawlessly, and the explosives were attached to the locomotives, cranes and warehouses and caused extensive destruction. On the way to retreat were British army camps, which had been alerted by the explosions and the shooting, opened fire on the retreating unit. In the exchange of fire, eleven fighters including David were killed. David was brought to rest in the cemetery in Haifa. His memory and the memory of his comrades who fell with him in action are commemorated in the books “Unknown Soldiers”, “We Have not Returned to Base” and “The National Military Organization.”