David Palombo was born in Turkey in 1920 and moved to the Palestine in 1923 with his family. At a young age he worked for the Postal Service laying underground cables and with time became the manger of the cable laying division of the postal service. In 1940 he began to study at the Bezalel Art Institute and in 1942 began studying sculpture with the sculptor Ze’ev Ben Tzvi and for a time worked as his assistant and also studied sculpture at Bezalel. Palombo was killed in a motorcycle accident when he rode into a Shabbat gate in the Haredi community of Yamin Moshe. He is buried in Har HaMenohot in Jerusalem.