Yesterday a nineteen-year-old Israeli yeshiva student named Dvir Sorek was murdered in what authorities are treating as an attack by Palestinian terrorists. He was on his way back to his yeshiva from a trip to Jerusalem where he had bought a book as a gift for one of his teachers when he was apparently taken and stabbed to death, his body left on a road leading to his home.
His father, Yoav Sorek, the editor of Hashiloach, an Israeli journal of ideas, and a friend and contributor to Mosaic, remembered his son as a boy with “light in his eyes,” reports the Times of Israel.
“Whoever didn’t know him missed out; he used to help the weak around him who were in need of a friend,” a tearful Yoav Sorek told reporters outside his home.
“Our Dvir was sweet,” Sorek . . . said of his nineteen-year-old son. “Two months ago he had a karate exam and he didn’t get a high grade because his teacher said he performs the movements well, but lacks ‘murder’ in his eyes. That’s right. He had light in his eyes. Now someone with murder in his eyes has taken him.
“We received a gift for almost nineteen years—for that gift we are grateful, we will carry the pain from now on,” he said.
Read more on Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/whoever-didnt-know-him-missed-out-says-father-of-murdered-student-dvir-sorek/