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Orcabi, David

Orcabi, David

Son of Rachel and Shmuel, was born in 1923 in the port city of Aden. Where he attended school and later worked as a laborer. When he was 17, he married and immigrated to Israel with her in 1944. Over time they had two children. David continued to work as a laborer and fulfilled his duty to the homeland in the service of the Hagana and the Navarot. In the winter of 1948, at the beginning of the War of Independence, he worked in the “Yotzek” factory near the Jerusalem Road beyond Mikveh Yisrael, because work in the factory, which was outside any Jewish settlement, was necessary during the events of brave and devoted people to the Haganah. And another factory, “Spirat”, adjacent to the Holon intersection, had guard posts on the way to the south and Jerusalem, and on December 29, 1948, a British army force arrived, accompanied by Arab gangs. At the mercy of the Arabs Some of the defenders managed to escape, but ten were killed by the Arabs David was among the fallen on the 29th of Adar 5708 (February 29, 1948) -aolmim military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.

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