Shlimek, David (“Kif-Kif”)

Son of Haim and Rebecca. He was born on September 13, 1936 in Hadera. He studied at the Arlozorov Elementary School in Hadera and after graduating he studied at Kibbutz Ein Hahoresh. He was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement and was a counselor and during the holidays he would go out with the movement to spend time with her. He was intrigued by his father’s activities in underground activities, and was interested in the ongoing activity of inciting illegal immigrants to Israel and other public affairs. The period of tension before the completion of elementary school – especially in the past two years – left its mark on him. At that time there was great tension that the state was established, the War of Independence broke out, the invasion of the Arabs came – and the boy was witness to failures and victories that came with the state’s struggle for its existence. He studied at the Wingate Institute and completed his studies as a qualified physical education teacher in elementary and high school. He saw his profession as his destiny. He had a worldview about the essence of physical education and believed that he was forging a person’s nose, educating, developing, and instilling noble qualities in him. His activity in public work was in the area of ​​paralyzed children, and David would deal with it with tenderness and love. In October 1954, he was drafted into the IDF, completed an officers’ course and attained the rank of lieutenant, participated in the Sinai Campaign as an officer in the battles of Mitla … During those days the Sinai Campaign was burned with the battle of the Mitla Pass and thousands of miracles remained alive. “From that day on he was called up for reserve duty, and David spent only one year studying at the Department of Geography and Administration at the University Institute of Haifa, but no more because the Six-Day War broke out and in this war he was again in reserve duty, and on the second day of the battles, On May 6, 1967, David fell when he was the commander of the mortar division of the reconnaissance unit, whose firepower and accuracy were an important contribution to the unit’s victory in Armored Corps – in armor; But in the same battle to capture the Dotan Valley in the Jenin area, David found his death. He left a wife and a child. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. Publishing a booklet bearing his name. The name Amidar was immortalized in his monthly magazine.