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"It's hard to talk about in the past tense": The soldier killed in the accident was buried on his birthday
Shaul Weizmann, a 19-year-old motorcycle rider, was killed in a collision with a truck on Route 4, several months after his father died of a serious illness.
Instead of celebrating a skydiving birthday, he was laid to rest in the Nahariya Military Cemetery:
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Yoav Itiel
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 16:35 Updated: 16:41
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Shaul Weizmann, the soldier who was killed yesterday (Wednesday) in a motorcycle collision with a truck on Road 4, was laid to rest today, on his 19th birthday.
According to his friends, he was on his way home to celebrate his birthday when the accident happened, and today he planned to celebrate the event in skydiving.
Today, his family and friends accompanied him on his final journey to the military cemetery in Nahariya.
For the family this is another disaster, after the father died a few months ago from a serious illness.
"It's hard to talk about it in the past tense, it all happened so suddenly," he told Walla!
His good friend Aviv Azran, who has known him since they were in kindergarten.
"He was a unique person. He always helped his older parents and because he grew up in a neighborhood where many seniors live, he would always help them in anything that was asked."
"The motorcycle was a childhood dream."
Shaul Weizman (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
"The motorcycle was his childhood dream, when a car started with an electric bicycle and was shivering when a motorcycle passed him in the city. As soon as he reached the right age he made a license and since then it has been his means of transportation, hobby and work," Azran added.
"First when he started working as an emissary, and then with the recruitment as a motorcyclist of a military police. In the military service he managed to accompany entourages of heads of state and ambassadors and everything that was requested."
According to the Green Light Association, in recent years more and more motorcyclists are dying on the roads.
"The heart is broken, another young soldier who all his life before him lost his life in the war on the road. Road accidents are the sick evil of Israeli society," said Erez Kita, the association's director general.
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