Selma, David (Davido)

Son of Haim and Mercedes. Born on 18.4.1947 in the city of Tetouan, Morocco. In 1963 the family was now in Israel after the father-in-law died shortly before. When the family arrived in Israel, she settled in Safed, but a few months later David decided that his future could be found only in the farm. He then entered the Shalhevet youth group at Kibbutz Lehavot Haviva where he completed his elementary studies. But the family was worried about him and because of the economic distress he was unable to continue his studies, he went out to drive a tractor in flames – Haviva. At first the boy did not stand out but soon discovered qualities of physical passivity, humor and the ability to social performance without creating a special noise around him but a wise smile and the ability to be liked by all without any effort. When he completed his youth service he was drafted into the IDF in July 1965 and served in the paratroop infantry brigade of the Nahal Brigade. He volunteered for this unit despite the mother’s solicitation, although he was a disciplined teenager and was still in spite. He served in Shamir for one year and then went on to advanced training. He recently completed the course successfully, despite a serious injury to one of his parachutes. The ties with the mother were not relaxed because of his “conversion”, but on the contrary; They became more courageous, a mother’s hidden anxiety about her son’s fate. His last visit to the family home was about three weeks before he fell, because while he served in the regular army, the Six-Day War broke out. David fell in a battle that took place at the junction of Rafah junction on the first day of its battles, June 26, 1967. During the occupation of the target hit the larva in which he traveled a direct hit and when he rose to jump out of him hit a bullet. He was buried in the military emergency cemetery in Bari and was later transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Kibbutz Lehavot-Haviva devoted its leaf in the “struggle” to his memory. The booklet “53 of them” published by the Kibbutz Artzi in memory of its fallen comrades in the campaign were brought to its history.