David (Dudu), son of Golda and Shmuel, was born on January 1, 1941 in Bucharest, Romania, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1951. He studied in an elementary school in Romania and in a public school in Safed, He was a student at the agricultural school, and was very fond of nature and especially of animals, and according to one of his friends, he was meticulous and orderly and sympathetic to his friends. was good at Judo and gymnastics, he had a talent for drawing and knew how to do artistic carpentry work. He also wrote poems, and he knew how to prepare special dishes, he was very serious and devoted to everything else, and he had a tremendous workforce and extraordinary diligence. Very natural and honest in his attitude to every person, he had a good atmosphere around him and it was pleasant to work with him, David was drafted into the IDF in mid-July 1959 and assigned to the air force. Since he did not complete an aviation course, he was transferred to the infantry. After completing an intelligence training course, he was posted as an intelligence columnist at Golani Brigade headquarters. After completing his physical training course, he was placed as a physical training instructor at the brigade commander’s school, where he stated that he was a skilled instructor and that he should be sure to use his training in physical training. And after his discharge from the IDF, he began to study natural sciences at Tel Aviv University. He completed his bachelor’s degree in biology and was awarded a teaching certificate after graduating from the pedagogy department. Afterward he continued to study biochemistry, and in 1970 he was awarded a master’s degree in natural sciences after completing a thesis entitled “Metabolism of the ribonucleic acid in the venom glands of the common viper” and after passing the exams with honors. This study was published in a professional journal in England and has generated many echoes in laboratories dealing with the study of snake venom. He continued his doctoral studies and even completed half of his doctoral dissertation on “intracellular differentiation processes during rat spermatogenesis”. Shortly before he fell David began to summarize the chapters in chemistry and prepare them for scientific publication, and they were published after he fell. Along with his work in research, which one of his counselors said was outstanding in thought, high technical ability and dedication to the task, he worked for several years as a biology teacher at the A. Carrey Gymnasium in Rishon Letzion. He was an excellent teacher and managed to turn dry material into an interesting and fascinating. In order to revive the material, he used a lot of equipment, films and slides and toured with his students in nature. He liked to teach all, and biology in particular, loved his students, and they gave him affection and also consulted him on various problems. He never shouted in the classroom and in his quiet, soothing voice he took over wild classes. According to the director of the Gymnasium, his uncle found the golden path to the students’ hearts, without giving up the level of studies. Within a short time, he was able to concentrate the school on biology and the laboratory, and he did so with honors. He was going to continue teaching, even after receiving a doctorate. He recently wanted to buy a farm, plant sub-tropical trees and work in agriculture, without abandoning the research. In his home he was an exemplary husband and father, very fond of his wife and devoted to his children. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, David feared that they would not enlist him, since his unit was about to be dismantled. He was glad when he received an order and was sent with his unit to participate in battles in the Golan Heights. On October 9, 1973, he was hit and killed in the shelling, while he was in the brigade command post, north of the Nahal Geshur settlement. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion. He left behind a wife, a daughter and a son and two sisters. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal. His wife published a pamphlet in his memory containing things written about him by friends and family, his teachers at the university, and his students at high school. The booklet also contains a summary of his thesis for his master’s degree, his doctoral thesis, excerpts from his letters and poems; The biology lab at the Carrie Gymnasium in Rishon Letzion, where David taught, was named after him.
