Reitblat (Reitblatt) David Froimovich (7 September 1946, Korosten, Zhytomyr Region) – engineer.

David Reitblat was born into the family of a worker, Froim Abramovich Reitblat (1912, Veledniki, Zhytomyr Region), and a housewife, Dunya Aronovna Reitblat (née Gendelman) (1913, Bohun, Zhytomyr Region).

He completed 11 classes of the local evening school (1964) and graduated from the Riga Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers (RKIIGA) (1964–1969). He served in the Soviet Army (1969–1971, Sital-Chay, Azerbaijan SSR).

He worked as an electrician at the Kyiv Special Department of the Trust Elektromontazh-1 (1963–1964); as a loader in the workers’ supply department of the Baltic Railway (1965–1969); as an engineer in the diagnostics department of the Special Design Research Bureau of the Ministry of Automobile Transport and Highways of the Latvian SSR (1972); and as a design engineer and later senior engineer-mathematician at the Information and Computing Centre of Automated Production Management Systems at the Ogre Knitwear Combine (1972–1985).

In his marriage to Berta Haim-Gershevna Reytblat (née Nabedrik) (1946, Korosten, Zhytomyr Region), a daughter was born: Yulia Davidovna Reytblat (1973, Riga).

In 1985 David Reitblat received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1973 his cousin (the son of his father’s sister), Yakov Shlemovich Sherman (1946, Riga), had been living, and since 1979 his sister Etlya Froimovna Manoim (née Reytblat) (1945, Korosten, Zhytomyr Region). In the same year he for the United States.

Family:

Froim Abramovich Reitblat (1912) – father
Dunya Aronovna Reiblat (née Gendelman) (1913) – mother
Faina Froimovna Kulova (née Reytblat) (1938, Korosten, Zhytomyr Region) – sister
Boris Froimovich Reitblat (1942, Namangan, Uzbek SSR) – brother
Etlya Froimovna Manoim (née Reitblat) (1945) – sister
Berta Haim-Gershevna Reitblat (née Nabedrik) (1946) – wife
Yulia Davidovna Reitblat (1973) – daughter
Yakov Shlemovich Sherman (1946) – cousin