Ivnitzky, David

Son of Pnina and Manus, was born on 24.7.1924 in Vienna, Austria, to wealthy parents. He was a city boy, possessed of inventions and loved by his surroundings. He was educated at a public elementary school and a Hebrew Gymnasium and was a member of the Betar youth movement at the age of 14. He immigrated with a group of Youth Aliyah, which was sent to Degania A. He worked in carpentry, found his place immediately and opened new horizons Before 1941, when he was drafted into the First Battalion of the Bafs, and with the establishment of the Jewish Brigade, he served in the rank of Corporal and served with talent In 1946 he was discharged from the British army and returned to Israel, to his few relatives, after he learned that his entire family in Vienna But in this period he managed many courses and trained his comrades to take up arms, and in the summer of 1947 he was sent to the guard station in Holon, where he served in various guard posts, and was particularly active in defending convoys. “On February 11, 1948, Mishmar left seven guards in an open van from Holon to inspect the road to Jerusalem and secure the passage of a convoy. Near the entrance to Yazur they found the road blocked and encountered fire from an Arab ambush. The van was hit and burned, the guards were forced to abandon him, took cover on the side of the road and fought against better forces until they all fell, and David among them. David was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. After his death he was promoted to lieutenant. He left behind a wife. Next to the place where the shiva fell, on the roadside, there is today a wave of remembrance in their memory. On the ruins of the village of Yazur, the town of Olim was established (now a local council) and includes a “Shiva” state elementary school that commemorates them. Every year, on the day of Noflem, a ceremony was held at the school in memory of them. Just east of it, beyond the Shiva interchange (also named after them), Moshav Mishmar Hashiva was established in their name, with a monument in their memory and the memory of the moshavim who fell in Israel’s wars. The streets of the moshav are named after the shiva