Lakir, David

Son of Esther and Pesach was born on August 7, 1929, in the city of Rachtat, Baden, Germany, where he settled in Haifa in October 1934. After finishing four elementary school classes, he joined the Communist Youth Alliance and devoted much of his free time to study, to read and to study in general education and the theory of communism, and was able to achieve considerable ability in expression and thought analysis at the beginning of the War of Independence. Asked and received permission from his movement to volunteer for the army and was stationed in one of the Palmach battalions in the ” Harel. ” He tried to fulfill every role faithfully and devotedly, and regarded it as loyalty to both his homeland and his idea. When he came on his only vacation and visited the club he asked his friends innocently if his behavior in the army suited the communist view, and the positive answer he received made him Simcha. In his letters to friends, he would express encouragement and readiness for all. But out of natural humility, he did not boast about his actions and was so humble that he fell in battle during an attempt to capture the radar camp on the 16th of Iyar 5708 (June 1, 1948). On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) he was brought to eternal rest in her military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.