Chen was killed in a helicopter crash in Haifa.

Today he was laid to rest by his grandfather, without knowing about the disaster

Exactly one week after Chen Fogel was killed off the coast of Haifa, today his family accompanied his grandfather, Sioma Weissman, on his final journey, after dealing with a serious illness.

The funeral was held in the Kfar Samir cemetery in the city, about a kilometer from the military plot where the young pilot was buried.

"What they have in common: human love and endless giving"

Yoav Itiel

10/01/2022

Monday, 10 January 2022, 16:50 Updated: 19:41

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Exactly one week after the helicopter crashed off the coast of Haifa, in which the city's resident, 27-year-old Major Chen Fogel was killed - today (Monday), at the end of the shiva, the pilot's grandfather, Sioma Weissman, was laid to rest.

Weissman, 86, the father of Vogel's mother, was battling a serious illness, and the family chose not to share with him the news of the fall of his young grandson in his last days, when his condition was already defined as serious.

Yesterday he died at his home in the Carmelia neighborhood on the Carmel.

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Did not know about the death of his grandson in his last days.

Sioma Weissman (Photo: Official Website, IDF Retiree)

Weissman served for many years in the Navy, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel after holding a variety of positions, focusing mainly on the logistics field

. He was laid to rest in the Kfar Samir cemetery in Haifa, about a kilometer from the military plot in the same cemetery where his grandson was buried. "The endless giving," said one of the attendants about Vogel and his grandfather

. Of the IDF, accompanying the grieving family, joined the funeral procession.

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Large rescue forces were called to the scene of the crash.

The most difficult task of all was assigned to one diver

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Fogel was killed last week along with Lt. Col. Erez Shahayani in a "helicopter" helicopter crash off the coast of Haifa. Musk Captain Ron Birman, and he is being treated at Rambam Hospital in fair condition.

Major Chen Fogel, who was killed in a helicopter crash last week (Photo: courtesy of the family)

Yaron Fogel, the father of the killed pilot, said after the crash that his son "was a man of values ​​and love of country."

He said he wanted his son to be remembered as "a man who is all good, who strives to help others, who has always thought of the earth, the animals, and the people, and how only to do good in the world."

"Cute elf, smiling child, intelligent, intelligent, smart, sociable," Fogel described his son.

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