Couple married for over seven decades died together

• David and Hana Regev celebrated their 70th anniversary two weeks ago.
• After healing, he joined the IDF’s 7th Brigade and worked as an Air Force mechanic.
• Hana got demented a few years ago, but she still spoke and responded to her family.

David and Hana Regev celebrated their 70th anniversary two weeks ago.

“I don’t remember them separately. Symbiotic, “Dori said.

They died together on Friday.”With all the pain of parting, we, the family, have comfort that it happened at an advanced age and that they knew how to leave together, without one of them being left alone.”

David was born in 1929 to Belarusian immigrants who relocated to Tel Aviv four years earlier. He joined the Palmach before graduating from Neve Tzedek’s boys’ school.

He spent hours in public libraries studying music and history, self-taught.

David was in the 1st, 4th, 6th, and 1st battalions of the Naan training. He secured immigration to Kibbutz Yachiam in the Western Galilee and helped applicants get off ships.

He then joined the Tel Aviv enlisted unit and defended the city when the war began at the end of November 1947. David was shot in a Kfar Shalem conflict. After healing, he joined the IDF’s 7th Brigade and worked as an Air Force mechanic.

David worked as an electrician for years after leaving the IDF. “He loved classical music and studies,” Dori said.

In 1935, three-and-a-half-year-old Hana immigrated from Poland with her family. Her father saw the evil spirits coming and worried about Poland’s Jews’ destiny. In 1932, he visited Maccabiah to investigate coming to Israel. Two years later, he arrived with his family.

Two years later, he wrote to the high commissioner requesting immigration for his brother and family. It was unacceptable to approve two family members. The brother’s family came. Only four cousins survived the Holocaust.

Hana attended Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv. Her father worked in orchards and founded a business in Ra’anana after the family relocated there. After graduating, she studied nursing at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital and became an officer in the army.

A Givatayim school nurse for most of her career.

In 1952, David and Hana married. They had Orna and Dori in Tel Aviv after a brief stay in Ra’anana. Tel Aviv to Givatayim in 1967.

They had two children and five grandchildren. Hana got demented a few years ago, but she still spoke and responded to her family. Her condition worsened a few months ago, and she didn’t want to bother her family. She refused hospitalisation and stopped taking medication.

David was fresh, clear, and energetic, preserved his sense of humour, and recounted Palmach and Air Force events like Ivy Nathan’s emergency landing of a Dakota plane he was in.

The couple and their family chose home hospice at their apartment. Hana stopped eating and drinking two weeks ago. David stayed with her. Nathaniel, a young man, would occasionally wheel him about the neighbourhood. Same Friday.

Hana died in the nearby mall as they were discussing. David arrived home in discomfort and received the bad news. He died shortly after hospitalisation.

David and Hana were buried together at Yarkon Cemetery on Sunday.

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