Tzur-Magen, David

David, son of Kashor and Akiva, was born on December 4, 1947, in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1952. He graduated from the elementary school in Moshav Hodaya with a certificate of excellence. Thanks to this, he was sent for tests. He passed the psychotechnical tests successfully. At the end of the first year of his high school in Afridar, Ashkelon, his mother died. He was therefore forced to leave high school and moved to study at the vocational school in Kiryat Gat. After receiving a certificate, David left the moshav and moved with his brother to live in Tel Aviv, near his sister, where he worked for the “Ramat” company in Ramat Gan as a welder. David was an introverted guy. He always loved to help others, was a loyal friend, dedicated, secretive and loved by all his friends and acquaintances. David was a compromising man, always with a smile on his face even during the most difficult hours of his life. He was a loyal, devoted and supportive son. David was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in mid-November 1969 and assigned to the infantry brigade, where he was assigned to the Border Police, where he was assigned to the Border Police. In the Jerusalem Brigade, where David married his girlfriend, Shoshana, and the couple lived in Bat Yam in a rented apartment, and he was about to receive his apartment, which he bought on his own, a few weeks after the war broke out, but he did not live in it. In reserve duty in the “petting” stronghold at the southern end of the bitter lake on the Suez Canal. (7.10.1973) When the men of Maoz decided to surrender, David was killed and killed, his remains were not known, and his body was returned from the area held by the Egyptians ten months later, and he was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. After his death he was promoted to the rank of corporal, and in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the unit commander wrote: “David fought with great courage. We found in him qualities of a man and a model warrior. “