Mrs. Esther Ben David, the 26-year-old mother of three who was killed Monday when Syrians shelled the Golan Heights settlement of Ramat Magshimim was an alumnus of Yeshiva University and a former resident of Kew Gardens, Queens, it was learned here today. She was racing to a bomb shelter with her 2-year-old child, Golan Akiva, when she was felled by an exploding shell. Her child was taken from her arms uninjured and brought to a shelter.
Mrs. Ben David, the former Esther Spector, came to the cooperative settlement two years ago with her husband, Benjamin Ben David and their children. After graduating with honors from Yeshiva University-Tonya Soloveitchik High School for Girls in Manhattan in 1965, she attended the University’s Teachers Institute for Women, receiving a Hebrew Teacher’s diploma, cum laude, in 1967. In 1968 she received a B.A. from Queens College. During 1967-68 she was on the Jewish studies faculty of Riverdale Day School.
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