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Gregg, David

Gregg, David


Born in 1894 in the city of Herat, Afghanistan to a rabbinical family, David studied Torah in his hometown, and when Beger taught in the Talmud Torah and was a ritual slaughterer, he married Sarah and the couple had two daughters, and in 1930 decided to immigrate to Israel And his two daughters, his two small daughters and the united family, lived in the Bukharan neighborhood of Jerusalem, and in the meantime three children were added to the family and in order to feed and feed the family members, David and Sarah were forced to work in every casual job. David worked in agriculture and in the building, was a kind and obedient man who spent his free time In the War of Independence, David was recruited to the “Etzioni” Brigade and worked in the construction of fortifications in his city Jerusalem On April 26, 1948, while building a protective wall in Kiryat Shmuel, Was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Sanhedria, where he left a wife, three daughters, two sons and a brother, and the memory of David was immortalized in the Torah scroll written in memory of the fighters of the War of Independence.

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