Sergeant Major Shmuel Halfon
Shmuel’s wife, Iris, said that her husband loved to do reserve duty, and that he had gone two weeks prior. A week later they told him to go back home. He came home, and the following day was called up again. Shmuel was also a big fan of the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer club. As a youngster he played in a youth league and planned, before suffering a sports injury, to move on to the senior league. Iris said that Shmuel was, “The perfect father. On Saturday night, Gil called him to tell him the team had won, and they were so happy together.” Shmuel Halfon lost his father at a very young age. Last week, his son Gil asked him how he felt when his father died. “I cried,” he answered. “I cried, and in the end, I got Stronger.” Iris reflected, “Now his children will have to deal with the same pain he did.”
Shmuel, a father of three, was one of twelve reservists killed on August 6, 2006 in Kfar Giladi by a Hezbollah-fired katyusha rocket. He was 42 years old.
Shmuel, a father of three, was one of twelve reservists killed on August 6, 2006 in Kfar Giladi by a Hezbollah-fired katyusha rocket. He was 42 years old.