Weber, David

The son of Henia and Mordecai was born on January 22, 1926, in the city of Mestria-Ponte, Romania, finishing seven classes of the elementary school, and then working for seven years in carpentry. And he was wounded several times: “To die is only worthwhile for the homeland.” After he survived the horrors of World War II, he went to the “escape route” He joined the “uprooted” who expected to continue their journey to Eretz Israel, where he joined the Irgun and prepared to train for the liberation of the country. In June 1948, he immigrated to Israel on the Altalena and managed to make his way to the shores of the State of Israel and immediately enlisted in the IDF and served in the Alexandroni Brigade, shortly after taking part in battles on the border between Sharon and the “Triangle.” In one of the meetings, when his wild exterior testified to his participation in the battle, he apologized for claiming that he had volunteered to fight “so that his mother and his sisters would have their own land.” In early November the brigade was transferred to the south and organized around a “pocket” Faluja, “in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged, as part of Operation Horev, a” liquidation “operation was carried out against H 28. On December 28, 1948, the brigade’s forces attacked Iraq al-Manshiyya, but unsuccessfully, was wounded in the attack, was taken to a hospital in Rehovot, and two days later, on December 30, 1948, died of his wounds. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Rehovot.