In life, Natan Rosenfeld made everyone feel included. Now, his parents are encouraging others to do the same
ONa sunny Sunday morning, the third of Tammuz, June 29, 22-year-old Eliora Rosenfeld answered a knock on the front door of her family’s home in Ra’anana. She knew immediately who was at the door and what they were doing there.
“It took me a minute to figure it out,” says her mother, Sam. “But then I understood.”
The somber strangers were bringing the news that the Rosenfeld’s second child, 20-year-old Natan Hy”d — serving in Gaza as a combat engineer — whad been struck by an RPG and killed by the impact.
“When you make aliyah, or when you have a child in the army, you know in the back of your head that it could happen, but I didn’t really think about it, didn’t really believe it could and would,” Sam says.
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