Gur-Aryeh, David

David, son of Miriam and Jacob, was born on May 4, 1940, in Argentina, before immigrating to Israel in 1949. He managed to study for two years in the elementary school there. After the aliyah, the family settled in Moshav Tel Adashim and David completed his studies in Afula. The parents struggled hard to set up the agricultural unit in Tel Adashim, but their forces did not succeed in bringing the agriculture to the desired prosperity. David was clear from the outset that he had the duty to make the farm glorious, and in that way he did. David was drafted into the IDF at the end of November 1962, underwent basic training and was discharged in order to return to the care of his parents, who were sick. He was a good friend and friendly with all his friends in the unit. After his return to the moshav, David entered the world of the development of the agriculture with unceasing vigor and developed new branches. At first, he was busy with emptiness. And its lettuce crops were widely praised in Israel and abroad. From vegetable crops, he moved to the emergency room for chicks and set up an Indian farm and breeding eggs. He had a unique eye-opener and the agriculture he established with his own hands flourished and expanded. David married his girlfriend Leah and eventually, they had three children – Ronen, Tomer, and Hagar. He was devoted to his family. Love was the quality that marked him, and he gave his love to his family, his children and his friends in the reserve duty unit. He made sure to bring the heaters to the kindergarten in the winter, filled the children’s needs in the garden when necessary, This love also marked him with regard to his comrades in the unit, the experiences he had experienced and the pleasure he enjoyed from his reserve service, which he saw as a national duty and an act of supreme importance. When the Yom Kippur War broke out David was called to his unit. He was one of those guys who were full of optimism and encouragement and had no doubt about the IDF’s victory, and he claimed in that simple, special approach that if we love our families and our homes and want to live in the country as free men, we must be ready to go to war. When the Yom Kippur War broke out and the company went up to the Golan Heights, David promised his friends: “This time I’m having a party at my house, and this will be a party you will not forget so quickly …” In 1973, the unit developed Konitra to the Khan-Arnabah junction, and the company’s mission was to seize the junction and secure it from enemy forces. (October 12, 1973), was the only security detailing the entire length of the road, when suddenly the fire shot on it, and David was brought to rest in the cemetery in Tel Adashim, leaving behind a wife two Sons and a daughter, mother, brother and sister, and was promoted to the rank of corporal, the defense minister wrote to the grieving family: “David was an excellent soldier and a loyal friend. He was loved by everyone who knew him. “