Har Zahav, David

Son of-Miriam-Zissel and Yehoshua-Moshe was born in December 1926 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and immigrated to Eretz Israel in October 1934. David received a traditional education and studied at Yeshivah in Jerusalem and afterwards at the Heichal HaTalmud in Tel Aviv He joined the “Noar Haoved” youth movement and began to study the construction work, but he did not allow himself to study at all, and he read and studied at the age of 16. He was 16 years old and was fired for his youth and joined the Palmach. In 1945 he joined the British Army and served in the Jewish Brigade, and as a soldier he visited Europe and met Holocaust refugees and made aliya to Israel, and when he returned to Israel he decided to study and study, When the War of Independence broke out, he rushed to the defense of the suburbs of Tel Aviv and participated in the construction of fortifications and positions and battles in the vicinity of the Hilazon factory, and was later transferred to Jerusalem, where he also participated in battles David was endowed with a sense of criticism and humor, and these qualities stood in his way during all the difficult hours and helped him He was always ready to help others and hated injustice and deceit, he was very well-behaved, his influence on his friends was great, and he was not deterred by any role assigned to him. Who had identified him as commanding and controlling his spirit in the difficult situations of the battle, but he did not finish the course because during the shortage of forces, the students were called to Jerusalem, and on the night of 19-20 October a “winery” was carried out. He fell in battle in an attempt to capture Beit-Jala on the 19th of Tishrei, 5709 (October 19, 1948), when he observed the progress of his comrades. He was buried in Sheikh Bader Aleph. On the 17th of Elul 5706 (August 30, 1950) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.