Weinberg, David

Son of Dvora and Mordechai, was born on August 23, 1927, in Kfar Yehezkel, the second generation of a pioneering family and a grandson of a family of rabbis and dignitaries. He was educated in Ramat Hasharon, where his parents, who were among the founders of the place and his first farmers, moved. David was one of the founders of the “HaNoar HaOved” branch in Ramat Hasharon and carried on his cultural activities. When he was in the eighth grade of the elementary school, he joined the Gadna and was later a member of the Chayash in the Sharon region. He successfully graduated from the elementary school and was accepted to the “New High School” in Tel Aviv. As a student in the eighth grade he volunteered for the Jewish Brigade and went with her to Europe. He worked extensively in the outlying camps and on his return to Eretz Israel he worked for the survivors. After being discharged from the British Army, he was accepted to the Hebrew Technion in Haifa, where he studied for less than a year, following the call of his conscience and joining the Palmach. The volunteers volunteered for every daring operation, and on January 25, 1948, the Palmach Department left to secure the passage of a convoy in the Castel area. David, who happened to be there, joined the fighters. The platoon encountered enemy reinforcements coming from Beit Sourik and the battle that developed, on the 14th of Shevat 5708 (January 25, 1948). He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavim. He dreamed of a more Yaffa, more moral and humane world, but he knew that without the liberation of his country, his desire would not be achieved. ” As a student of the elementary school, he tried to write poetry, and his literary legacy, which only a part of it preserved, attests to originality and emotion. In one of his last poems he wrote: “It is not for me that they are my dwellers and Rabi’i. I do not guard Carmi, because I am addicted to my people.”