David Samuel Links
David Samuel Links (born 4 July 1946, died June 2025) is a Scottish businessman and Zionist activist, belonging to a longstanding Zionist family. His role as a director of the Scottish branch of the Jewish National Fund replays the role played by his grandfather Abraham Links who set up the first Glasgow office of the JNF, which became known as The Glasgow Zionist Centre.
Abraham Links 'came from Galicia to Glasgow in the 1880s as a young child. He established a drapery business in 1907 which proved to be most successful. The company moved in due course into a large new building in Wilson Street. Abraham was a committed and generous Zionist, active in the Jewish National Fund and other Zionist organisations.'[1]
Abraham Links: 'was involved in setting up the first Glasgow office of the Jewish National Fund in Dixon Street in 1935, building on the success of the JNF's Glasgow Committee which had been founded in 1901 to raise funds to buy land in Palestine for the creation of a Jewish homeland. Links also supported Hebrew language teaching for Jewish children and the establishment of a Zionist-oriented Jewish day school in the Gorbals. The first step was the creation in 1911 of the Hebrew Higher Grade School at 124 South Portland Street, which offered after-school classes for children and evening classes for adults.[2]
Family background and upward mobility
Maurice Benzion Links' two sons David Samuel Links and Brian Israel Links were born in Pollok, Glasgow in 1946 and 1950 respectively. By the time that the family patriarch Abraham Links (the grandfather of David and Brian) died in 1953 he was living in Newton Mearns, the affluent suburb now synonymous with Glasgow's Jews. Nathan Links their great uncle lived until the age of 92 and died in 1978.
David Links and his wife Adalaine moved into a short street in the Glasgow G46 postal code in Giffnock in 2002. The house was sold on 25 February 2010 for £683,777. In the ensuing years a number of other houses in the street were bought by a series of wealthy Glasgow Zionists from the Lewis, Berkley and Grabiner families.
The Links then moved to a new property in Thornliebank also in the G46 postal code. on 25 February 2010 the property was bought for £410,000. In that month the average price of house in Glasgow was £107,849. The house was then gifted to David and Adalaine Links in 2016.
Affiliations
Charity trustee/Lobby group
- 2004 - Newton Mearns Synagogue - Chairman.[3]
- 2007 - present The KKL (Scotland) Charitable Trust - Trustee, Chairman.
- 2020 - Referred to as Glasgow Zionist Organisation incorporating Glasgow Israel Committee - Jewish Community Centre, 222 Fenwick Road, Glasgow G46 6UE Tel: 0141 577 8222. 'Glasgow Israel Committee is a non-political Zionist Education Committee providing meetings with Speakers on Zionist topics. It also organises the Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration for the entire Community. It promotes Israel in the Glasgow Jewish Community and provides back up for the shlichim.' Co-Chairmen : David Links and Sue Faber | Treasurer; David Links. Secretary: Sue Faber.[4] Links name was not listed in this position in 2021.
Corporate director
| Company name | Company number | Company status | Correspondence address | Role | Position | Appointed on or before | Resigned on | Nationality | Country of residence | Occupation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The KKL (Scotland) Charitable Trust | (SC316740) | Active | 8 Deaconsview, Mearns Grove, Glasgow, Scotland, G46 7UW | Role Active | Director | 16 February 2007 | British | Scotland | Company Director | |
| The KKL (Scotland) Charitable Trust | (SC316740) | Active | 8 Deaconsview, Mearns Grove, Glasgow, Scotland, G46 7UW | Role Active | Secretary | 16 February 2007 | British | |||
| Reardons New City Limited | (SC216986) | Active | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, G51 2JA | Role Active | Director | 1 April 2005 | British | Scotland | Company Director | |
| Teninarow Limited | (SC179020) | Active | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G51 2JA | Role Active | Director | 31 July 2004 | British | Scotland | Co Director | |
| Picturelinks Limited | (SC176887) | Dissolved | 8 Deaconsview, Thornliebank, Glasgow, G46 7UW | Role | Director | 26 June 1997 | British | Scotland | Company Director | |
| A. Links & Company, Limited | (SC020757) | Active | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G51 2JA | Role Active | Secretary | 31 December 1988 | British | |||
| A. Links & Company, Limited | (SC020757) | Active | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G51 2JA | Role Active | Director | 31 December 1988 | British | Scotland | Company Director | |
| Hutcheson Finance Company Limited | (SC057881) | Dissolved | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G51 2JA | Role | Secretary | 30 December 1988 | British | |||
| Hutcheson Finance Company Limited | (SC057881) | Dissolved | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G51 2JA | Role | Director | 30 December 1988 | British | Scotland | Company Director | |
| Robert Gordon & Company (Glasgow) Limited | (SC023067) | Dissolved | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G51 2JA | Role | Director | 30 December 1988 | British | Scotland | Company Director | |
| Robert Gordon & Company (Glasgow) Limited | (SC023067) | Dissolved | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G51 2JA | Role | Secretary | 30 December 1988 | British | |||
| James Murray & Sons (Scotland) Limited | (SC020256) | Dissolved | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G51 2JA | Role | Secretary | 30 December 1988 | British | |||
| James Murray & Sons (Scotland) Limited | (SC020256) | Dissolved | 3 Dava Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G51 2JA | Role | Director | 30 December 1988 | British | Scotland | Company Director | |
| Reardons New City Limited | (SC216986) | Active | Dungavel, Methven Road, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6TG | Role Resigned | Director | 19 March 2001 | 7 December 2002 | British | Scotland | Co.Director |
| Teninarow Limited | (SC179020) | Active | Dungavel, Methven Road, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6TG | Role Resigned | Director | 24 September 1997 | 20 November 2000 | British | Scotland | Company Director |
| The Nithsdale (Kirkintilloch) Property Co., Ltd. | (SC032216) | Dissolved | Dungavel, Methven Road, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6TG | Role Resigned | Director | 30 December 1988 | 6 December 1993 | British | Scotland | Company Director |