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Barak Khoury was run over to death on the way to his friend on Yom Kippur: "He saved every moment of his life, he probably felt"

Barak, 12, was killed a month before his bar mitzvah.

Now, 3 days after the disaster, his parents are talking about their highly talented creative son, as well as a crowdfunding project to complete his latest work - a firefighting robot he has been working on for more than a year.

Is: "When asked 'what are you missing in life?', He replied 'time'" "

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Sapir Levy

Saturday, 18 September 2021, 19:57 Updated: 20:11

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Barak Khoury's parents: "He took advantage of every moment of his life, he probably felt it" (Photo: Tal Shimoni, courtesy of the family. Editing: Lear Spiegler)

A month before his bar mitzvah, Barak Khoury was run over to death while riding a bicycle on the eve of Yom Kippur (Wednesday). The photos for the festive event album have already been taken, but then the disaster happened that cut everything off. "Two years ago he was trying to imagine what his bar mitzvah would look like, his mother Scout shares," he told me 'I want to come down from the ceiling with a piano,' and I told him 'no problem we're with you.' They always gave him a free hand. Recently, as the bar mitzvah approached I asked him what he wanted, he replied 'you know, I want to rest I do not want to work'. And suddenly he really got a rest. We have to be careful with the words as they are said. "

12-year-old Barak was the middle son of Scout and Itzik's three children.

Last Wednesday, he left the family home in Ramat Gan for his best friend's home in Petah Tikva.

On his way, he was fatally hit by a vehicle on Road 4 near Givat Shmuel.

Barak was first taken to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, then transferred to Schneider Children's Hospital, where they were finally pronounced dead.

The offending driver Eran Azulai, a resident of Be'er Ya'akov in his 40s, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and drunk driving.

His detention has been extended until Sunday, during which another detention extension hearing is expected.

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"An unusually creative child."

Barak Khoury (Photo: Courtesy of the family)

"He would draw, program robots, grid, sing and play the piano in bands, swim in a competitive team" (Photo: courtesy of the family)

"Lightning is," his mother begins to say and immediately rushes to correct, "was - an unusually creative child." His father adds "a very warm and sensitive child, responsible, a good brother." Scout continues: "There are children who in adolescence at a distance with their parents, Barak was not like that. I would kiss him several times and tell him 'every kiss is for every idea you have in mind', and I would say to him 'this is it? I kissed all the ideas?'. He was "No, there's a little more."

The parents also proudly recount Barak's many hobbies: "He used to draw, program robots, grid, sing and play the piano in two bands, swim in a competitive team. Barak loved to engage and create recycled materials. Our recycling bag at home was hard to throw away, Barak always had to Go through it before, to see that there is nothing that can still be used.When we were walking down the street he would notice electronic waste and would like to take it home to us,And disassemble the same device to reassemble and use it according to his imagination. "

"Barak took advantage of every minute of his life" (Photo: courtesy of the family)

"His mind was feverish with ideas from the moment he opened his eyes in the morning" (Photo: Courtesy of the family)

"Barak took advantage of every minute of his life," Scout emphasizes, "his mind was feverish with ideas from the moment he opened his eyes in the morning. Barak implemented every idea he had. "Others and learning them. I do not know many children who take every minute and take advantage of it as if it were five minutes. There is not just 'staring' at something - every minute is used."

"He acted like he's on borrowed time, he probably felt it," the mother says in tears.

"They once asked him in an interview, 'What do you lack in life?', He replied 'time.'

"He left without saying goodbye due to the excitement. He went, and that's it" (Photo: Courtesy of the family)

"God has decided he needs him upstairs, that he will make renovations in heaven" (Photo: courtesy of the family)

The parents describe the day of the tragic accident, before which Barak asked to ride independently to his friend in the nearby town. Barak's mother says that "he really wanted to go to his friend in Petah Tikva. We delayed it for a year because of the corona. It is his best friend, he told me. I said to myself 'how much can you hold the child, you have to release at what stage'. He printed a map and we made our way back. "

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"Then he did not answer us on the phone, we called the police," Itzik adds. Scout continues that then "two policemen appeared at our door, said there was an accident and took us to Beilinson, did not say a word on the way," and shares how she already understood from the doctors' appearance that Barak's condition was very bad. "A quarter of an hour after we arrived at the hospital we realized the story was over. It was awful, just awful. "

"Will it help me get angry? It will not bring back the child, the anger."

Scout and Itzik, Barak's parents (Photo: Official website, Yuval Chen)

The robot on which Shaked Barak spent the last year of his life (Photo: Official website, Yuval Chen)

When asked if they are angry about the disaster that happened, the parents answer that they choose not to be angry, and that anger will not return their child. Itzik explains that he "tries not to get to these districts, it's very difficult. 'What, if and why' - very difficult questions, it pops up. Trying to move on, it's the right thing to say, trying to live with it." "It's fate. It's written from above. It was his day," says Scout, "will it help me get angry? It will not bring back the child, the anger. If it was his fate it could also have happened near the house, it's things beyond our control probably." .

Instead, the parents chose to commemorate Barak by fulfilling his dream, and they raise funds to complete a robot that has worked on its development for more than a year. The robot is designed to act as an "automatic firefighter", which detects and extinguishes fires without endangering human life. The robot is powered by a solar panel, with sensors for detecting heat, gas and light, as well as sensors for detecting objects in space that allow it to move independently.

On Barak's entrepreneurship and self-learning, Itzik says: "I told him, 'Listen, you need to know programming here, it's a very complex project. I don't know if engineers can do such a thing.' But Barak ran. Until tonight. "

The father proudly explains that containers containing flame retardants have been attached to the robot, and that the robot is powered by a computer code that Barak developed himself, "in the absence of appropriate sources of knowledge for children his age on these complex issues."

"Barak's dream in the last year of his life was to complete the robot, and he was all in it" (Photo: courtesy of the family)

"Barak's dream in the last year of his life was to complete the robot, and he was all in it," notes Itzik, now we want to complete his project and turn it into a robot that can be used to put out actual fires, for the benefit of man wherever he is and save lives.

We would like to use the prototype of the robot after it is completed, to allow teens to learn robotics and programming through it and inspired it, as a source of learning knowledge that was not available to the 12-year-old, to create similar projects in the future.

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The name of the page is 'Barak Khoury's Robot'.

We will be happy for donations from anyone who wants and identifies with Barak's story.

Any donation will help. "

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