Golko, David (Effi-Dudi)

Son of Pesia and Gedaliah. He was born in 1914 in Kiev, Russia, immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1944. The family settled in Haifa and was among the first residents of the Neve Sha’anan neighborhood, where the mother grew cows and sold milk and the father provided water for the neighborhood’s residents. After graduating from elementary school in the neighborhood, he continued to study fine mechanics in the workshops near the Technion, where David was an active member of the Haganah and participated in the maintenance of Neve Sha’anan. On one of the days of the 1936-1939 riots, on 8 August 1939, the bus on which he traveled from Haifa to Neveh Sha’anan was attacked, Di Arabs. David was wounded, rushed to Hadassah Hospital, but shortly afterwards died of his wounds and was buried in the Haganah section of the Haifa cemetery. He left a pregnant wife and a daughter, parents and four brothers and sisters. His daughter, who was born after his fall, was named after him – her uncles. The municipality of Haifa called a square named after him in Neve Sha’anan.