The least we can do for the man, who sacrificed his life in such a heroic fashion, is to tell his story.

Major Roi Klein, the deputy batallion commander of 51th batallion of the Golany infantry brigade, from the Eli settlement, was the highest ranking officer between his soldiers in Beit Jbeil. During the combat, he noticed a hand grenade thrown at his men. Since there was no time to evade the effect of the upcoming explosion, he jumped at the grenade so as to block the shards and thus save his men. His sacrifice was succesful. His men, who thus survived the battle, told later that he cried out "Shma Israel" as he jumped at the grenade.

Roi Klein, a real hero in the age of anti-heroes worship, was burried at the day he turned 31.

It is told of him, that he was an excellent saxophone player and a brilliantly spiritual man, who completed cum laude his engineering degree. He hiked with friends in Afrika, he had a captivating laughter. All his friends say he was a quiet, gentle man. His widow wishes their children to grow up just like him.

May he rest in peace.

Instead of lighting a candle, please pass the story on. He deserves much more than that, but that's as much as we can do.



Translated by: dimrub
Original (n Hebrew) is making rounds.

They get closer to us, every day and every hour. Today our small town (it was relatively quiet here) was hit in three different places.
I was at work at that time (as a matter of fact, our clinic is right halfway between the two spots where rockets exploded). Nothing unusual, routine procedure – we heard the siren on the radio, shouted “Siren” to warn customers and run to the bomb shelter. The explosion occurred immediately after that. It was so loud that we started yelling. It felt like the explosion was right behind the wall. Everyone reached for the cell phones, but there was no cellular service, and landline phones stopped functioning half an hour before the rocket attack. Of course, the radio didn’t tell the exact locations of the explosions (for security purposes) but very soon customers and personnel started calling friends and relatives and found out the places of rockets’ landings. My mother was able to reach me. Someone told her that the rocket exploded in the building on the main street. Our clinic is the newest building (only one month old) on the main street of town. I was lucky to call her before the lines were disconnected. Our cleaning lady was less fortunate. Her son called her and said “It landed very close to our house…” - and then the phone went dead. Poor woman immediately fainted.

News channels revealed the places of explosions only two hours later. Two rockets landed in open space, and in the third case – two wounded and several people in shock (the rockets hit a new house, fortunately not on the main street but two blocks away).

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Continuation of the last post :)

OK, I went shopping on Wednesday morning – to buy food, to the bank, some other chores... I left my house shortly after ten o’clock in the morning... People from Haifa could already start laughing... I’ll explain it for out-of-towners :) there were three sirens during the hour when I was walking down Hanita Street :) By now I intimately know two storage places and one garbage area of the store :) :)))

However, I still managed to buy food. But I didn’t go to the bank – I met my neighbor and she told me that during the rocket attacks everyone is suppose to leave the bank building (!). I imagined what I would feel in a situation like that – and decided not to go to the bank ...

The smoke rises far away like a wavy cloud,
Khaiber(Iranian-made rocket) or “Katyusha”(Russian-made rocket) – it’s hard to see,
And planes started ascending in the sky...
Soon enemy will think of me :)

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Question

Friends, I posted this question in one community (for Russian-speaking Israelis) but they still have not published it yet :) But I want to know.

My question is – I want to donate blood. But I work during the days and it’s not really convenient for me to go searching for blood station in Haifa... Do you know any places where I can donate blood at night, let’s say after ten o’clock? Or tomorrow – I probably be in the center of the country during the day. Can I donate blood there (it will be Saturday)? And what does this procedure involve?
Thanks in advance :)

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