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"Yuval immigrated to Israel at the age of 6 from Peru, it was always clear to him that his home was the Land of Israel," said Rakfat Ben Haim, a relative of Major Yuval Lopes who died yesterday (Monday) in the 21st disaster in the center of the Gaza Strip, on the program Seven-Nine with Udi Segal and Anat Davidov on 103FM. "Back in Peru, his mother said, 'We always wanted to come to Israel to reach our homeland, and I wish we wouldn't have to defend anymore and that it would be ours.'
We both grew up in the same community in Peru, he is married to my cousin and they both have three sweet daughters.
They chose to settle in Apple, because the subject of settlement was very important to them.
Yuval also volunteered for the reserves, his company finished and he joined another company, he felt that this was his mission.
He said, 'I need to be fighting right now, for my people.'"
Rakfat continues and tells about the deep rift in Yuval's family, "The last time I saw him he was walking with his children on Shabbat.
Yuval's youngest daughter is only seven months old, and she will not get to know her father.
He was a devoted father, father and husband.
He was a man of the house, a man as before, loving, warm.
His home was the main thing for him, his childhood, patience, giving.
It was not perceived that he would not be there anymore, not absorbed.
He really liked to volunteer and donate and always went everywhere with a smile.
If he saw us now he would say 'Enough, why are you crying?
Smile, people of Israel live."
"A loving and warm man, the home was the main thing for him."
Major General Yuval Lopes/IDF Spokesman
Avi Ben Valid, the father of Major General Barak Ben Valid who also fell in the disaster, also spoke painfully about the son he lost. "I think Barak was the last person who would want to be told about on the radio.
He was so modest, so shy.
He was a man of action, not talk.
He would always do everything right and hide in the dishes.
He wanted to be as combative as possible.
He came to the Givati patrol and became the commander.
In the reserves, they were a team of friends who had already been together since the regular season.
Some of his friends were killed with him."
"He was a family man.
He has a lovely wife, her name is Anna Venga, his little daughter.
He did everything for them," my father continued and told about Barak's broken family. "He was a lovely father.
He would constantly play with her and take her for walks, she was constantly on his shoulders.
He enlisted from the first day of the war, in the morning he went, without being called.
He did everything by himself, never asked for help in anything, every parent would want a child like that."
"He did everything for his wife and his home."
Major General Barak Haim Ben Valid/courtesy of the family
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