At 34, he left behind his parents, 12 siblings, his wife, and four children ranging in age from 4 to 12. At the conclusion of the holiday, his widow shared a devastating tribute featuring a photo of him in uniform holding his son, writing that exactly one year after he had left for the war, she was saying goodbye to him with endless pain. She said he had been killed in battle in Southern Lebanon on the eve of Shemini Atzeret, that she had been blessed to spend eleven happy years by his side, and that she did not know how she would find the strength to go on.