David Reuven Boim, son of Stanley and Joyce Boim, was born on March 22, 1979 in New York. He made aliyah with his family in 1985 and was educated in the Har Nof section of Jerusalem where he lived.
He was a student at the Beit El Yeshiva High School when he was shot by terrorists while waiting for a bus on May 13, 1996.