Solts, David

Son of Sosha-Gitia and Yosef Zvi. He was born on July 7, 1907 in Galicia. After his birth, the family returned to Altenburg, Germany. In this small town of 27 Jewish families, David studied in the German elementary and high school, while he received his Jewish education from a teacher hired by the local Jewish community. Already in his youth he devoted himself to public activity. He established the branch of the Zionist movement in Eltenburg, was the authorized Jewish National Fund administrator and distributed the Zionist journal Yidishe Rundschau. To earn a living he studied furriers and worked in this profession in a large workshop in nearby Leipzig. At the end of 1930, the whole family moved to Leipzig. Here, too, David took an active part in Zionist work. From 1932 he was a member of Hechalutz and spent some time in training. In 1934 he married a wife and in that year joined the nucleus that founded Kiryat Amal (later Tivon), where he was among the Hagana activists. He lived in one of the extremist houses of the new settlement outside the settlement fence. On 27 Shvat, February 16, 1939, during an Arab attack on the Yishuv, he was hit and killed on the spot. He was buried in the Carmel Beach cemetery. Left a pregnant wife, parents, five brothers and a sister.