David, son of Yehuda and Zilpa Morduch, was born in 1931 inSandor, Iraq, where he studied at a Talmud Torah in his hometown, immigrated to Israel and a few days after his arrival in Israel he was drafted into the IDF. He fell in a battle at the Jordan River near the Sea of Galilee on the 30th of Nissan in 1951. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Afula.