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DAVID (DAVIDEK) FOR (OCTOBER 20, 1924 – 4 JULY 2012) WAS THE HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE KIBBUTZ, A TEACHER AND EDUCATOR, FROM THE REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL OF BURNER AND HIS FIRST MANAGER, A SENIOR OFFICIAL IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND AN ISRAELI DIPLOMAT.

HIS RESUMES
DAVID FOR WAS BORN AS UNCLE FORMAN IN SHESEI SHALITA ON OCTOBER 20, 1924. HE WAS EDUCATED IN A HEBREW KINDERGARTEN AND THEN IN THE HEBREW GYMNASIA "CULTURAL" IN THE CITY. FROM A YOUNG AGE, HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT “NACH”.

THE PERIOD OF THE HOLOCAUST WAS PASSED IN THE GHETTO IN QUESTION, ALONGSIDE HIS MOTHER AND SISTER, AND WAS ACTIVE IN THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT. TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE 16TH DIVISION OF THE RED ARMY ARRIVED, HE WAS SENT BY THE NAZIS TO THE EXTERMINATION CAMP THAT WAS ANNEXED AND FROM THERE TO THE DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP IN SOUTHERN GERMANY. TOWARDS THE END OF THE WAR, AS THE AMERICAN ARMY APPROACHED THE GATES OF DACHAU, THE GESTAPO RELEASED THE JEWS WHO REMAINED ALIVE, INCLUDING FORRE, FOR THE MARCH OF DEATH TOWARDS SOUTH GERMANY. ON MAY 2, 1945, THE AMERICAN ARMY ARRIVED AND RELEASED THEM FROM THE NAZIS. FOR APPEALS TO A HOSPITAL THAT THE AMERICANS ESTABLISHED IN A LARGE MONASTERY NEAR LINDSBERG CALLED THE ST. AUSTINE MONASTERY, WHERE OCHEZEZ AND HIS LIFE WERE SAVED. AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL, THE CENTER OF THE REMAINS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN THE DISPLACED CAMP WAS FROM THE “FOREIGN” MOVEMENT, AND ORGANIZED THEIR RISE TO ISRAEL OF HUNDREDS OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.

IN 1947, FORRA IMMIGRATED TO ERETZ ISRAEL WITH HIS WIFE ESTHER AND A GROUP OF 80 HOLOCAUST ORPHANS ON THE BOARD OF THE APOSTLES THEODORE HERZL. THE SHIP WAS ARRESTED BY THE BRITISH AS IT APPROACHED THE SHORES OF THE COUNTRY, AND ITS PASSENGERS, INCLUDING THE FERTILE COUPLE, WERE SENT TO A DETENTION CAMP IN CYPRUS. IN DECEMBER, AFTER 10 MONTHS, THEY WERE RELEASED AND SETTLED IN THE KIBBUTZ IN THE JORDAN VALLEY.

IN JANUARY 1949, HE JOINED THE BUCHENWALD KIBBUTZ, TO THE DAYS OF THE SERBIAN KIBBUTZ, ESTABLISHED BY HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS FROM THE BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP. THAT SAME YEAR HE WAS ELECTED SECRETARY OF THE KIBBUTZ AND WAS ONE OF THE MAIN MEMBERS OF THE KIBBUTZ. HE LATER SERVED TWICE AS SECRETARY OF THE KIBBUTZ. IN EARLY 1951, THE SECRETARY OF THE “WORKING YOUTH” MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL.

FOR MANY YEARS, HE WORKED AS A TEACHER, AS AN EDUCATOR, AND AS A SCHOOL MANAGER IN THE KIBBUTZ. WHILE HIS WORK, HE STUDIED AND GRADUATED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS. IN THE SUMMER OF 1957, THE ISRAELI DELEGATION WENT TO THE MOSCOW YOUTH FESTIVAL. IN 1961, HE STUDIED A BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN HEBREW LITERATURE AND A COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AT TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY.

IN DECEMBER 1967, HE WAS APPOINTED FOR ISRAEL’S CULTURAL CONSUL IN PHILADELPHIA. DURING HIS STAY IN THE CITY, HE COMPLETED A MASTER’S DEGREE IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. AFTER RETURNING TO ISRAEL, IN 1970, HE ESTABLISHED THE REGIONAL SCHOOL IN BERNNER AND WAS HIS FIRST DIRECTOR. BEGINNING IN 1976, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE FOR BASIC EDUCATION IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, AND THEN, FOR EIGHT YEARS HE SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE PEDAGOGICAL SECRETARIAT OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION.

AFTER HIS RETIREMENT IN 1990, HE WORKED ON BEHALF OF THE JOINT BASISPOLI, ITALY, WHERE MANY JEWS WERE ASSEMBLED FROM THE SOVIET UNION, AND THEN SERVED AS THE JOINT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SOVIET UNION. IN JULY 1991 HE BEGAN ACTING AS THE SOLE DIRECTOR OF THE ZIONIST JEWISH EDUCATION IN THE SOVIET UNION (FORMERLY) FOR THE JEWISH AGENCY’S EDUCATION AUTHORITY, AND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR JEWISH EDUCATION THROUGHOUT THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. AT THAT TIME, BADEISH’S MASTER’S DEGREE GRADUATED, AND CONTINUED TO DIRECT TRACK TO THE DOCTORAL IN YIDDISH LITERATURE AT BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY.

IN HIS LAST FEW YEARS, HE HAS MAINLY WORKED IN WRITING. DAVID FOR WAS MARRIED TO SOPHIE MANLA AND THE COUPLE HAD TWO CHILDREN. HE DIED IN 2012, AND WAS BROUGHT TO POSES AT THE CEMETERY IN WHICH NAZARETH WAS ORDERED.

HIS BOOKS.
DAVID WROTE TEN BOOKS:
“RIGHT TO EQUALITY IN EDUCATION”
“FINALLY, ARTICLES AND LISTS ABOUT EDUCATION.”
"THE BEST OF TANIASLOW"
“THE SCRIPTURES OF ABRAHAM ARE IN HEBREW AND YIDDISH.”
"DON'T THE BEACH,"
“LIFE CIRCLES,”
"THE CANTONISTS IN THE BOOK