A month ago, my beloved nephew Omer (son of my sister Raaya and her husband Oren) was killed in combat in Lebanon.

Omer was thirty years old when he fell. He left behind his wife Adi and two little children, Neta, three years old, and Aluma, nine months old, who was born during the war in which Omer served as a reserve soldier for 200 days. (more…)