Jules, David

David, son of Lotte and Mordechai (Max) Jules, was born in 1923 in the city of Breslau, Germany. He was the only child of his parents. In 1933 they immigrated to Israel and settled in Haifa. In 1940 they moved to Kiryat Yam near Kiryat Motzkin. He quickly learned Hebrew and settled in to life in the country. In 1941 he joined the British Navy and served for two years in Israel and abroad and later worked in a workshop in Haifa Bay. He enlisted in the IDF in December 1947, and spent all his time in the isolated Western Galilee, taking part in the battles until the area was liberated. After the liberation he came home for a short vacation and from there went with his battalion to the Jenin sector. After stopping the invasion of the Jordan Valley, our forces took the initiative and attacked the Gilboa area. After gaining control of the Gilboa ridge, the Carmeli Brigade attacked Jenin on the night of June 2-3 and occupied the outposts controlling the city. The Iraqi army, which had moved to the Shomron after its failure in the Jordan Valley, concentrated its forces and counterattacked. In this battle he fell on the 25th of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948), and at the time of the withdrawal he was left with the rest of the dead and seriously injured and registered as a missing person. His body was presumed to have been among the bodies that were removed two weeks later by the Red Cross from the no-man’s land in a condition that could not be identified and was brought for burial to the Haifa military cemetery. On 3.8.1950, he was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.