The father of murdered 18-year-old Israeli soldier Dvir Sorek Hy”d paid tribute today to his son whose murdered body was found in the West Bank earlier in the day, hours after he went missing from his yeshiva in the settlement of Migdal Oz.
“Anyone who did not know him lost out,” said Yoav Sorek from his home in the settlement of Ofra.
“He helped the less fortunate around him when they needed a friend. He simply had a light in his eyes, but someone murderous took it away,” he said.
“We were given a gift for almost 19 years – for such a gift we are thankful, but we will probably always carry this pain with us.”
Dvir, who was a student in hesder yeshiva, a program which combines Torah studies with military service, was to be laid to rest Thursday at 8pm at the civilian cemetery in Ofra.
This was not the first tragedy to hit the Sorek family: Dvir was murdered 19 years after his grandfather, Rabbi Binyamin Herling, was shot dead in a terror attack near Nablus in October 2000. [From a report by YNET.]
{Matzav.com Israel}
