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Wieder, David

Wieder, David


Ben Rosa and Yitzhak was born on January 18, 1946, in Budapest, Romania. When David was about two months old, his father was killed. At the end of 1947, he left with his mother on the illegal immigrant ship Pan York to Palestine, but the ship did not reach the shores of the country. The immigrants, among them David and his mother, were transferred to a detention camp on Cyprus. In 1948 the two immigrated to Israel, and after two years, the mother remarried and the family settled in Hadera. David studied in his hometown in the Emunah elementary school and continued to study at the Citrin Institute in Atlit and Beit Berl near Kfar Saba. David served in the Engineering Corps in August 1963. During the Six Day War David fought in the Jerusalem area as a soldier in reserve duty. A combat paramedic, and during the Yom Kippur War he served as a combat medic in the Engineering Corps, David was wounded in the war, and his medical profile was reduced, but he did not accept it, but David wanted to serve and managed to regain some of his profile. In the Haganah, he took a number of courses, including a pre-military officer’s course Km. In August 1979, he was summoned to a course for medical officers. On August 13, 1979, while he was with his classmates, he complained of chest pains. He lay down to rest in his room. Then his friends found him unconscious. David was rushed to the hospital, where he died. He was 34 years old when he died. David was laid to rest in the Hadera military cemetery. He left behind a wife, two children, a mother and a sister.

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