Yishai, David

David, son of Chana and Elchanan, was born on 13 November 1950 in Kibbutz Alumot, where he studied at the elementary school in Degania Aleph and later graduated from the Beit Yerah high school in the Jordan Valley. Once he sat in class and was so engrossed in reading a book that he did not feel that all the students had gone and the school was closed, and only in the afternoon did they discover him sitting alone in the classroom, still reading. In the psychotecanic exams he had before he started high school, he had high grades, and during the first years of high school he had a period of disintegration and Merry and he was almost unheard of In addition to the time he devoted to studies, David, who was known by Dudi, found time to work in the Gadna and was a member of the Hanoar Haoved movement. He excelled in swimming, played tennis, collected stamps and loved cooking. When he was five years old, he traveled with his parents to the United States, where his father served on the Defense Ministry. At first he had trouble adapting. After the kibbutz’s freedom and expanses, he found himself in a huge concrete town. “There is no land in this land, only concrete,” he told his father. His great curiosity led him to various adventures. One day a New York cop brought him home after he had gone for a walk and could not find his way back. When they asked him where he had gone, he replied: “I wanted to see which street came before Number One Street …” David enlisted in the IDF in late November 1968 and was drafted into an aviation course, but dropped out after eight months. But he refused and chose to serve in the armored corps, completing his training in the tank commanders course and reaching the rank of First Sergeant, and continued to instruct new cadets and refused to accept repeated requests from his commanders to go to the officers’ course. After the liberation, David began studying at the Technion, but did not even have the time to complete the course when the Yom Kippur War broke out, Dudi hurried to join his unit that fought in the Sinai, on the 13th of Tishrei (October 9, 1973), his tank was hit in the battle and almost all the crew were killed. For five months Dudu was absent until the tank was discovered in the territory of the Second Army, and Dudi was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl. He was 23 years old. Survived by his parents, brother and sister.