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The mother of Shmuel (Shmulik) Buikner, who was killed yesterday (Friday) in an elephant attack in a national park in Nepal, said today in a conversation with Walla!
Because he was supposed to return to Israel next week, and finish his medical studies in two months.
"He chose to work in a hospital in Nepal because he was looking to help the third world. His whole life was giving. He bought gifts with his own money and gave them to 500 children there. In Israel, he was a volunteer at an old people's home," said Dr. Tatiana Boekner, director of the pulmonary institute at the home The Lenaido patients.
"He came to medicine because he saw this giving as a mission - he really wanted to be a doctor. Towards the end of the mission, he was walking in this nature reserve and the disaster happened there," said his mother.
She said that he grew up and was educated initially in Or Akiva, then in California.
He began his medical studies at the University of San Francisco and was about to complete his degree at Ben Gurion University.
According to her, her son was very active among the Jewish students in the "Hillel" organization and even served there as a director in the leadership of the branch.
"He gave lectures all over the world about Israel, you could talk for hours about his work," she said.
One of his best friends, named Nicole, said that they still don't understand what exactly happened.
"It's just terrible, he was a good friend, and we're still not in a place to talk about him in the past tense," she said in a conversation with Walla.
"He went to volunteer in Nepal on behalf of Ben Gurion University and really liked what he did. Less than a month ago he celebrated his 30th birthday there and was supposed to return here for an internship in the coming days. We are sitting with the family members who are waiting for updates."
"He came to medicine because he saw this giving as a mission."
Boekner (photo: documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)
Buickner was killed yesterday in Nepal by an elephant attack, his body was found lying in the forest and he was identified using the driver's license found on him.
The incident took place near the town of Saurah, which adjoins the famous national park, Chitwan.
Travelers from all over the world come to the place to experience close contact with elephants.
Buickner, a specialist from the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, stayed in Nepal with an Israeli delegation to volunteer at a local hospital.
The Foreign Ministry is familiar with the event.
The Israeli consul at the embassy in Kathmandu, Dana Fisher, and Tal Bluygrund from the department for Israelis abroad are in contact with the family, and are assisting in the arrangements for the transfer of the casket to Israel.
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Fatal encounters between elephants and other wild animals and humans are not uncommon in Nepal.
The newspaper "Kathmandu Post" reported on another man, a local, a laborer who worked sweeping roads, who was killed in the last day by an elephant attack on his house.
Locals blocked a main road in protest against the authorities and demanding that the deadly elephant be moved to another place and take responsibility for the problem of wild animals that threaten their peaceful lives.
They demanded proper compensation for the victim's family and refused to collect his body from the hospital until their demands were met.
According to the Nepali "Republica" website, in the last six months eight people have been killed due to wild animal attacks in the Chitwan National Park.
Among them, two people died due to elephant attacks.
A 64-year-old woman was killed in an elephant attack in the national park just a few days ago while a 70-year-old woman died in the metropolitan city of Hartpur last month due to an elephant attack.
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