Shapiro, David

David, son Shayna and Mordechai Shapiro, was born in Ukraine in 1899. In 1924 he came to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. From 1929 he belonged to the Haganah in Jerusalem. In 1932 he was also in the government for pharmacists, and since then he worked in private pharmacies, in the HMO, and was finally admitted to Hadassah Hospital, where he worked as a pharmacist until his dying day. He was a humble man devoted to his people and culture. David moved away from any political action and during his free time was always absorbed in reading Hebrew books. During the months of the siege of Hebrew Jerusalem he paid no attention to the dangers of his work, and every day he went up to Mount Scopus so as not to leave the pharmacy in the hospital without a pharmacist. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and upon the outbreak of the war the movement was allowed to mount convoys secured by the British army. On the morning of April 13, 1948, a convoy left for Mount Scopus, after the British promised that the road was open and safe, and the convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs torched it. Two buses, an ambulance and a escort vehicle were ambushed, and for many hours the convoy fought to prevent the Arabs from getting closer to the vehicles, which were fired from our positions in the city and Mount Scopus. And did nothing to help, despite the appeals to them Two buses on their passengers, and only at evening did the British intervene and rescue the survivors from the trapped vehicles, where David was among the fallen, and was buried in a mass grave in Sanhedria.