Machon, David

Son of Tovah and Yitzhak. David was born in Riga, Latvia on 26.11.1946 David studied in Riga and completed high school there, and when he married, he married a couple, and after three years they divorced in 1972. In 1972, at the age of twenty-five, Whose uncle died in Riga, David immigrated to Israel with his father, his younger brother, and his uncle, and David’s daughter stayed with her mother overseas, and soon after she immigrated to Israel. David came to Israel at the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, and despite the fact that the Hebrew language was not yet familiar to him, he felt a deep need to volunteer and to take part He went to live in Kiryat Gat and then returned to the area. Over the years, they had two children: David studied Hebrew at the Ulpan, and at the same time joined the police in 1976. He was a courageous, diligent and kind man, and his colleagues praised him for being a loyal friend. About his work. On the 17th of Shvat 5739 (February 13, 1979), during the arrest of a debt refusenik, David was shot and killed on the spot. First Sergeant David fell in combat. He was thirty-three years old when he fell. He was buried in the military cemetery in Holon. He left a wife and three children.