But in the Haifa neighborhood about his death.
Shlomo Hershkovitz (Photo: surfers' photos, .)
Residents of the Dania neighborhood in Haifa are in mourning following the death of someone who was an integral part of their lives for three decades and more, even though he was not a resident of the city at all.
Yesterday (Monday) he was found lifeless in his small apartment in Kiryat Motzkin, and was laid to rest in the Tel Regev cemetery.
Another one of Haifa and Kiryat's Galmudi who passes away, with no one to say Kaddish over him or sit down with him, and who usually has no one to accompany him on his last journey.
However, at the funeral of this man, Shlomo Hershkowitz, although it was held about an hour and a half after the body was found, about thirty people nevertheless came, most of them members of the sports club of the prestigious neighborhood on the Carmel Ridge, who came to say goodbye to the man who was known as "Shlomo the Keeper of the Country", but he was To the residents of the neighborhood he is the father of the house, the beating heart of the club, and they believe that it is Simli who died following a heart attack he experienced a few days earlier.
A member of the city council, the lawyer Sharit Golan Steinberg also eulogized him, "Very sad", she wrote from the USA where she is currently on a trip, "The children loved him so much.
They would sit down to talk to him and he would tell them stories about himself and his military service."
Shlomo Hershkovitz, the guard at the entrance to Dania's country house, was a very lonely man. His parents immigrated from Romania, sheltered from fire, and settled in a tiny two-room apartment in Kiryat Motzkin. Almost 67 years ago, he was born Their eldest and only son, Shlomo. He had no brothers or cousins, and because of his parents at a young age he was left alone in that small apartment in Kiryat Motzkin. He did not have a mobile phone, only a landline in that small apartment, to which he returned every day at the end of his shift, preparing A slice of uniform bread with white cheese and cucumber, and sits down to watch a view until he falls asleep. He married at a young age, but this marriage did not last more than a few months.
"A lot of people in the club saw him as a kind of family member."
Hershkowitz (Photo: surfers' photos, .)
"I didn't know there was a Galamud. I remember him as the charming man who is always there and who always says hello. He always cares and always goes above and beyond the call of duty," said Vala Odia Schwetz, who and her husband Roy are residents of the neighborhood and members of the club for five years, who train and spend time there with their children on weekdays and at the weekend "Shim, "He was a kind of house father, no longer a guard, with a lot of people in the club who saw him as a kind of family member.
The truth is that it's moving to see how many people he was a part of life.
" with them and always encouraged them to be positive and invest in their studies.
There is no one who did not know him in the club, and for decades he was an integral part of the club.
Only yesterday I found out that there was a Galmud and it made me feel bad.
How did I not know that?".
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A post on Facebook written following the announcement of Hershkowitz's death (Photo: Surfer Photos, .)
"He never elaborated on this despite our many conversations. He had no children," said 34-year-old Assaf Neve, who knew him since he was a child growing up in the neighborhood, and today is an executive at a technology company in Ra'anana, "He told me he had no family or friends And he never agreed to let me come to his apartment. I guess he was ashamed because he lived in a very limited way."
He also added, "He was also on the spectrum but was never diagnosed, and maybe that's why it was much easier for him to make friends with children. Children have more patience to listen to an adult who repeats the same sentence over and over again, adults never have time, certainly not the guard There wasn't a child in the neighborhood whose name Shlomo didn't recognize, but he called all of us by our affectionate names, even when we had already put on uniforms and left the city."
"Shlomo and I had a special bond. From a young age he would wait for me with a 'nut' snack and tell me about his adventures as a truck driver in the IDF, about large transport vehicles that he would collect as toys, and show me photos from his service days.
When I didn't have the strength to walk back from class, he was happy to drive me home and show off the steering wheel of his old Subaru.
In every meeting, in every conversation, he always talked about the pension, emphasized that he was responsible and made sure to deposit all of his salary, so that he would have something to live on.
Maybe because he knew there would be no one to take care of him.
In January he was supposed to celebrate 67, he almost reached the long-awaited retirement age, and maybe he didn't want or didn't need him to get there.
" "All his life he was alone and he died alone," Neve added, "but thanks to the publication of the case now he will receive all the love and warmth he didn't get to them.
He has no successor and no one sat for him, but he is not forgotten."
Hershkowitz (Photo: surfers' photos, .)
The CEO of the Dania Sports Club, a resident of the neighborhood, Shlomi Nachshul, was the older man with whom he maintained a special relationship since he took the position in the nineties. He paid a condolence visit to Shlomo when his mother passed away, and realized that he had an interest in a special man in a special situation. "He had some kind of problem but not defined.
And then he was left alone with no parents, no wife or children and no siblings.
He didn't have friends either, probably as part of the problem he had.
Even in welfare he fell under the radar, not disabled, not elderly, not homeless, steady salary." He added, "He treated the club as a home and we, knowing he was lonely, took care of him all the time.
We would invite him for weekends, for meals, but he always refused." Now it is possible to find out that the club changed world orders because of him, "About a decade ago, he fired a bullet from his gun and his license was revoked.
We could no longer return the gun to him, but we still managed to get him to work, with pepper spray, with a special permit, and we continued to employ him."
"On Friday morning, ten days ago, his condition began to deteriorate. He came to work even though he was not feeling well because it was important to him that there would not be an empty gate on his shift. I sent him by taxi to the health insurance fund. He returned after an hour and said that they did not accept him, we sent him again, this time to the home sick, with a letter explaining the situation. In 'Carmel' they hospitalized him and it turned out that he had a heart attack. Within days he underwent two catheterizations. But all that mattered to him was that we take his '80 Subaru to a safe place where it wouldn't be broken into. When he was released last Wednesday, he came to the club , took the car and drove home. On Thursday he already wanted to return, but I encouraged him to rest at home and we agreed that we would listen on the first. On the first, I called from the morning about the night. He did not answer. So on the second, I drove to him and there was no answer at the door. In the end, I went to the community police and returned with a policeman who called Maccabi Ash, and MDA, broke down the door and found him in his small room, lying next to the bed.
The postman claims to have seen him on Sunday morning.
So apparently it was like that for no more than a day.
The funeral was held immediately afterwards."
"The club will organize a grave," promises the club's CEO, "our hundreds of members are all mobilized for this.
The whole neighborhood is in mourning for Shlomo.
It is very fresh, but you can say that it is also the desire of the association's management, we will perpetuate it.
" "What do we learn from this?
There are good people with a good heart who just want to give, and we as a society and as a business should thank such people.
What we got from him is two hundred percent.
He gave his soul to the club and this shows that even in business you have to follow your heart.
The club has heart and soul and it is thanks to such people.
Let's hope we continue his tradition and become good people."
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