Ben Rachel and Nissim. Born on February 5, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a young son of a family of eleven. Danny was educated in a traditional framework in a religious family, rooted in Safed. Until his immigration to Israel, he studied at the Jewish-Zionist school in Magen David in Brazil. At the age of nine his family immigrated to Israel and built their home in Jerusalem. Daniel attended the Luria Elementary School in Jerusalem, continued at the Porat Yosef junior high school and completed high school studies at a Torah yeshiva. Daniel fit in well and find his place in the country. At the age of twelve, Daniel was orphaned from his father and by the power of his personality, his scholarship and religious knowledge contributed, despite his youth, to maintaining family cohesion and preserving religious values. His knowledge of this subject came to the fore at the age of sixteen when he was chosen as the World Bible’s second vice-president, and was chosen to be one of the students of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. He was drafted into the army in early February 1982. He completed basic training and was assigned to a Golani unit and was assigned to the ‘Orev’ unit. He took a parachuting course and continued on the combat course in the Infantry Corps course. Later in his career, Daniel went on to special training courses for the “Orev” reconnaissance unit, received the rank of sergeant and returned to his unit as commander of the anti-tank team. Daniel was discharged from the IDF at the end of January 1985, with the rank of Staff Sergeant. On his release certificate, his commander wrote: “Dedicated and diligent, very popular and acceptable to his friends.” At the end of his service in the IDF, he began his academic studies at the Law Faculty, but after a year stopped studying for personal reasons and worked in various jobs for his livelihood.In late August 1989, Daniel was called up for reserve duty, and his unit was sent to the Jordan Valley, (2.9.1989) Daniel fell in battle in the Jordan Valley. He was on a morning patrol with his unit when they announced that a second patrol had encountered a squad of terrorists and a wounded soldier. Daniel’s team felt the scene. Daniel ran forward; When he reached the patrol soldiers, he was hit by the gunfire of a terrorist who ambushed the patrol across the perimeter fence. Daniel was immediately treated by the patrol medic, who was evacuated to the company’s doctor, but died there. He was laid to rest at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem. Survived by his mother, six sisters – Rivka, Esther, Sara, Miri, Liza and Dvora. And four brothers – Carlos, Salvador, Chaim and Moshe. Daniel was loved by everyone and his mother in particular, and was dominant in the family. It combined the spirit, the values of Jewish tradition and culture, the joy of life and warmth, whose roots are in Brazil. In his death he left a large and unbreakable space, a deep longing among his many loved ones. In a letter of condolences from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin to the bereaved family, he wrote: “Daniel was a courageous fighter, volunteered for every mission, radiated joy, contributed to and helped everyone else.” Daniel served in this reserve company for four years. After his death, his commanding officer wrote: “Daniel was very prominent in the company, and he contributed a great deal to the burden of the tours and the routine tasks. His family and friends commemorated his memory and the memory of his fallen friend, Aharon Hanukkah, at the monument where they fell, near the village of Ruppin, in memory of a tree in the forest of the Jewish National Fund.
