David Josip Navaro was born in 1926 in Skopje. He completed his primary and secondary education in Skopje, and due to the start of Second World War and the circumstances, he was forced to discontinue his further education. He suffered the same fate like other Jews in Macedonia, on 11 March 1943, when he was imprisoned in a temporary camp in Skopje (the Monopoly building). Thanks to the fact that he had Spanish citizenship, he was released from the Monopoly, thus avoiding deportations to the Treblinka death camp, then occupied by Nazi Germany. He spent the rest of the war illegally hiding from the Bulgarian occupying police and army and waiting for a suitable opportunity to join the partisan movement.

In early 1945 he joined the partisan movement and was assigned to the Sixteenth Macedonian Strike Brigade, which was part of the Fifteenth Corps, and David Navarro was appointed commissioner of a unit. On 12 April 1945, he took part in the great breakthrough on the Srem front on the Shid-Tovarnik stretch and died bravely near Ilinci, Srem in the first days of the offensive.