Kufstein, David-Yehonatan

Son of Mordechai and Sarah. Was born on February 1, 1959, in Kiryat Bialik, near Haifa, as a descendant of a well-known rabbinical family in England (from his mother’s side). When he was one year old, the family moved to ‘Ahuza’ on Mount Carmel in Haifa. Here David studied in the kindergarten and the Carmel State Religious School until the sixth grade. He spent three years in the junior high school of the Yavneh religious school in Haifa, and completed his high school studies at the Bnei Aharon yeshiva in Kiryat Shmuel, where he kept a religious lifestyle He was a quiet guy who answered all his obligations as a schoolbagner, and David was drawn to the fascinating world of sport and the rich youth of the youth movement, and from his youth he was flexible and light-legged. He played basketball among his friends and was a member of the “Elitzur.” The Bnei Akiva youth movement, which he joined at an early age, His inexhaustible desire to devote himself to the realization of the religious, national and human ideals he had faithfully believed in. He was still a shy and inexperienced boy, and he had already been entrusted with the training of his branch in Kiryat Yam – a position he had accomplished beyond expectations. David, whose family and friends took out after his death, sail David’s friends and children with the respect of the qualities he was blessed with: a combination of thin sensitivity and brilliant thinking, not much arguing, little attention, no quarrels, and peace between his friends. His sense of humor was a good thing. He always seemed to smile. Loving and expressing tenderness, friendship and brotherhood. In the military service file, his commander gave him this grade: “Quiet, modest, with outstanding human values, honest, diligent and dedicated.” David joined the Nahal paramilitary group in his movement, spent a few years in Kfar Etzion in Gush Etzion, and soon became fond of his friends in the nucleus and the adoptive family. In the course of the infantry paratroop he underwent basic infantry training and was physically fit and willing to help him cope with all the basic training difficulties. He has not yet completed this course, and has already been sent with his friends to the field of operation in Operation Litani. At the entrance to the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, he was ordered to clear a fortress of a terrorist headquarters. During the battle that developed between the forces, he was severely hit by a shell and facing the home front, but his life could not be saved. He fell on Friday, March 15, 1978. He was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Haifa and left behind his parents, sister and brother.