Jonah, David

Was born in 1920 in the city of Tobruk in Tripoli and was young when Jewish soldiers who had served in the British army during World War II arrived in his town. He tasted the taste of Arab disturbances in the Jewish community, in which his parents were murdered. David decided to leave his family and to travel to Eretz Israel he traveled 1000 km to French North Africa, where he moved to France, found the way to join the Gahal (National Recruitment), volunteered and came to Israel in June 1948. With his arrival He was attached to the Givati ​​Brigade and spent all the time in the outposts: Hatah, Negba, Ibdis and Jolis. He participated in the occupation as a tramp and, more recently, in a battle for Hulikat. Was a courageous and sturdy lad – the healthiest young man in the entire platoon – good-natured, but full of hatred for the enemy. For him, the war was a kind of blood revenge: revenge for the murder of his family by Arab rioters. During the Operation Yoav in the attack on the Hulikat outposts, on October 19, 1948, he was hit by an anti-tank shell and died on the same day of his wounds and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in the village of Warburg.