Koltov, David

David (Dudi), Ben Rachel and Jacob, was born on 27.11.1947 in Haifa and attended the “Herzl” elementary school on Mount Caramel. Afterward, he studied at the Ort vocational school in Haifa and worked as a trainee in an industrial electrical equipment factory. My uncle was honest, kind, loyal – loved by all his admirers, and especially brave and fearless. He was devoted to his family and friends and was educated in a home where state security had a sacred value. David enlisted in the IDF in September 1966 and volunteered for the paratroopers, but because of his father’s poor health, he wanted to move him to a base closer to home, When the Yom Kippur War broke out, David hurried to his unit and was attached as an infantry unit to an armored infantry unit On October 14, 1973, during a battle that developed in the northern sector of Sinai, For many months, my uncle was defined as a missing person and even as a soldier whose burial place was not known until the end of the month of June The 1974, his body was found in enemy territory and he was laid-rest at the military cemetery in Haifa.