When asked to choose the important event of the decade, it is the presumption of the writer to think that he will know how to really choose the most constitutive event of all events for more than 3,600 days.

And yet, the few days when many people burn themselves for that common moment will go with them all their lives. People remember where Maccabi Tel Aviv first defeated CSKA Moscow in Wharton, what they did when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, where they caught Rabin's murder and where they were when Colombia with Ilan Ramon and his friends didn't really return to Earth.

We have had a lot of happy moments, but we mostly burn those sad ones - and the most important moment for me is the day when Eric Einstein died.

Eric was a relatively young man that day. Five weeks later he was to celebrate 75th birthday. In this age, people should not die at 75 unless they have complex chronic illnesses.

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Eric mostly did not see well, and the intra-abdominal aneurysm that erupted in him on Tuesday afternoon is a typical illness for older, tall, smoky people. 74 This is an adult, not an old man, his height was 1.86 meters, 1.87 when the worker TA was victorious, and he smoked - and when he did not smoke, he held an orange plastic mouthpiece in his mouth.

Despite the risk factors, Eric, as his godfather Abraham Halfi wrote, reduced himself to an anonymous point, not to bother his body with royalty. Inviting a doctor, or even going for a test, was an unacceptable job for him. "I think three times when I move from the bedroom to the living room, so go to the doctor?" He used to say. It was his teachings, it was his art.

Was a lover of life. The late Eric Einstein // Photo: Moshe Shi

It could very well be that if he had been tested beforehand he would have escaped this trouble, but if he had been tested it would not have been so Eric. He didn't want to bother and embarrass. Not doctors, not the woman, not himself, nor the people waiting on the bench in line for a test. He wanted to live in a confined space, and come on.

Therefore, his death swirled and struck Israel with shock and astonishment, which will not be forgotten. Because Eric, who was born in the first Hebrew city at the start of World War II, grew up and accompanied Israel here as a mature brother, almost a decade older than her. A kind of expert witness to what was here a little before, and a little after, when everything was hard and new, or as they used to say was good and we didn't know, and until things started to spoil and he, with his endless skills in acting, imitation, humor, the rare decline in detail, his ability to capture a character And get into it one by one - tell our story.

Although Yoav Kutner said he was the best Israeli singer, Eric never cooperated with this huge economic potential and made a huge effort to avoid earning a dividend or economic well-being. Rarely, when that happened, was it just for breaking a wall in the living room or replacing a whistling kettle for Tammy 4. In terms of his current counterparts in the Israeli singer - Eric was Klucher.

Eric was a follower of the old order. One afternoon, I called him after a grueling press conference in which Captain Hapoel Tel-Aviv Shimon Gershon announced his move to Beitar Jerusalem. I told him, and he mocks me with a mistrust of "okay, okay." I insisted and he hung up. In the evening, after barely recovering from the gospel - he asked me like a 5-year-old asks, "What could it be like?" And hung up again.

When an athlete or coach, no matter who, made a remarkable achievement, asked for his number and dialed it. After he finished talking, these people testified that this was the most exciting moment in their lives.

Because Eric, in his limited way, knew how to touch people in the most direct way possible. When they heard him - he was the most accurate and intimate, lover of life. Until that Tuesday bastard, close to 11 pm, when she left the Job line from Ichilov.

It was an unimaginable funeral. Tel Aviv was as quiet as we didn't know. Trumpeldor's aristocratic cemetery, with only 5,000 graves, received from nowhere and with the order of a new tenant high up next to the wall of the Israeli "Per la Shaz". Uri Zohar, a former friend and father of those who married his daughters Songs and Jasmine, still challenged and tried to check burial in Jerusalem, but surrendered.

Trumpeldor was so crowded that day that the stretcher could barely be carried between the crowds and lowered into the ground. And the message I made in my head went like this - the State of Israel is astonished to announce the death of Eric Einstein, tonight in Tel Aviv.