Reiser, David (Stephen)

Son of Minni and Richard, was born on April 13, 1962 in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia. He graduated from high school and immigrated to Israel in September 1939 on the immigrant ship Tiger Hill. David lived with his older brother, worked in various jobs and supported his parents who remained in the Diaspora. In 1942, he enlisted in the British Army and served in the Royal Engineers Corps. He rose to the rank of sergeant (sergeant), courageously extinguishing a fire that fell on an oil vessel in the port of Tripoli and actively participated in the defense of the Jews of Tripoli during the anti-Jewish riots of 1946. Upon his release from the army he returned to Israel and worked as a clerk in a shipping company in Haifa. In May 1948, he enlisted in the navy, but asked to be transferred to a more active position and was assigned to one of the infantry brigades. David completed a course for sabotage officers and, at the end of the first truce, set out to find an area on the Lebanese border. On 9 July 1948, one of the mines was killed and brought to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya.