Halmith, Daniel

Daniel was born in the town of Humble in southern Denmark on the 1st of Adar 5731 (March 7, 1991). A younger brother of Keren, who is older than him a year and five months old, and a son of educators who taught at Humble Efterskole, a school of the Independent Education Network in Denmark, and in 1995 his mother returned with him and his sister Keren to Israel, Daniel was a student at the elementary school in Ramat Sharet in Jerusalem, where he was diagnosed with giftedness and began to study at the ” “Daniel’s mother wrote,” special in your manner, unique in the simplicity with which you learned, understood, read, and performed. “After elementary school, Daniel moved to the Neve Tse’elim boarding school, In Moshav Ramot Hashavim, where he studied from the sixth grade and successfully completed multiple 12th grade classes. “Daniel played magic around the world, he knew how to give love and he knew how to get back … In every field he chose to touch, he turned out to be talented, and there were many of them: basketball and music were the last areas in Neve Tze’elim where he discovered his talent. “Said Ohad Shafrir, the director of the Neveh boarding school, who was a soccer player in a soccer team in Kfar Sava with an older team member or a boy who just learned to bounce a ball. Tze’elim, “in his eulogy on the day of Daniel’s funeral. “Daniel was like a big brother of mine, he always took care of the weak and put them in front of him … he was a social leader … Daniel was an example to me and to other children. A role model for me, I will always aspire to be like him. ” These words were written by a classmate to Magda, Daniel’s mother. Daniel was a talented athlete. At an early age he played soccer, and at the boarding school started playing basketball. In the 11th grade, he joined the Kfar Saba youth basketball team, while developing his style of training and watching famous basketball players on YouTube, and was awarded the title of “exemplary player.” The coach wrote to his coach Einav Cohen: “I try to write a few words about A basketball game that you were central to … But Walla, there was so much more, there was the cooperation and the friendship, and the caring. What is just basketball? Put a ball in a bin with a hole … You were so friend of everyone, awe of hurting a man and rejoicing in his joy. I try to write about the laughs you did all the time, I try to write about the courage you had, the courage … You fight the game against lions, human monsters, you made contact without fear. “From an early age, Daniel proved himself an autodidact in every field,” he said in a remarkably simple manner, “his mother said.” You did nothing about it. You just did, and you always did. “From childhood, he loved to read, especially fantasy and science fiction books, and when he did not have enough books in Hebrew he acquired books in English and with the help of Internet dictionaries he read them. And showed control of various accents and dialects such as American, British, Australian and even South African.As a result, Daniel developed a great deal of interest in computer games and science fiction and fantasy role playing games, and began to play “Dungeons and Dragons” Of about ten players, all strictly and in accordance with the thick rules of the game, or In addition, Daniel, who at the age of six months had easily taken over, began reading the English courseThe construction of the Duplo bricks, the painting and painting of miniature soldiers and weapons. He has been a member of the Israeli miniatures community since its inception. The same community whose members conduct battles according to very precise rules and rules. During these years Daniel used to participate in the annual “Icon” festival for science fiction and fantasy, and at the annual “Yagur” conferences of the Association for the Advancement of Role Games. “… When we started organizing the community conferences, we always wanted Daniel to come … A person who can make everyone smile, throw a joke … was always the nail of the evening and in many ways he helped this community crystallize …” Of the Israeli miniature community. Omri added: “… The experiences, the stories, the quotes and the crazy games he invented were one of the reasons I found it fun to come each time, to be dragged along with a sleeping bag and to sleep like a ‘horani’ wherever he hosted the community in its early days.” Daniel was interested in history from an early age. He was particularly interested in the military history of World War II. He was not intimidated by thick numbers about the rise of Nazism, the Battle of Stalingrad or the invasion of Normandy, and everyone read in English. When he reached the age of mitzvot, his grandfather and grandmother, his mother’s parents, went with him to a trip in France. It was Daniel who planned the route: the five beaches of the Normandy invasion, where the Allies landed to fight the Nazis, and the Maginot line along the German-French border. “Daniel visited us at the American cemetery on Omaha Beach in Normandy, where thousands of soldiers are buried, he discovered tombstones with a Star of David And stood next to them thrilled and excited. ” One of Daniel’s most prominent occupations was music. “Your teacher said she had never met a child who should not be told more than once,” she said. Daniel liked to sing and play, and on YouTube you can see and listen to his music and songs. The director of the boarding school where Daniel studied was told about his final project: the study of the song “Hallelujah” written and composed by Leonard Cohen. Daniel wrote at the beginning of his research on the song: “Hallelujah!” After a long period of thought and wonder, the idea was born in my feverish mind – Hallel for Hallelujah – a project to end my way in the Neve Tzelim home with a taste of music, a touch of romance and a great touch of emotion. At the age of ten, in the animation film Shrek, I already felt a connection, but in the whirlpool of childhood I could not delve deeply into the song, and I did not hear it for many years until one day I passed the Boys’ Lobby on my way to my room – the radio was unattended and suddenly familiar sounds were carried in space The room – I sat transfixed for the duration of the song, my ears pressed to the speakers, and years passed, the song was forgotten from my mind, I underwent many processes and events And even though I always had a hidden chord in my heart, I had no interest in music (so to speak, like the lyrics of the song) until one day I was sitting in a music center on the computer, bored, moody, tired and grumpy. , From the depths of my memory, from the depths of my turbulent heart, floated up there, the same rolling name – that hidden chord … “. At the graduation party of the twelfth grade class in Neveh Tze’elim, Daniel sang “Hallelujah” to parents, students and teachers in his adaptation and translation into several languages: Daniel grew up to be a smart, modest, As an adult, he helped the weak and knewConnect to everyone. Daniel stood out with his wit, his joy of life, and his sense of humor. Everywhere he has proven himself as a social leader and as an example of his surroundings. “He had an inner strength to empower the people around him, and to bring them into expression,” according to his mother Magda. Upon completion of his studies and before his enlistment, Daniel traveled with his family to France for two weeks. On this trip, as in the previous trips, he proved himself to be a charming partner with a sense of humor who reads and is interested in everything he sees and criticizes. “He was so lacking in every trip and trip, he was a charming partner in all respects, we used to read the tour guide together, and sometimes even read alone and explained me modestly and examined what he read.” He waited for the mobilization and expected to serve the country. On 18.10.2009, Daniel enlisted in the IDF, where he was told that “I was born again on this day.” Daniel was assigned to the Military Police Corps and already in basic training, he was found suitable for command and sent, not yet completed basic training. Served as a new recruits at the Training Base 13. Daniel was satisfied with his service, loved the unit and was admired as a commander and a friend: “For me you were not only a commanding officer who did his work lovingly, with a spark in his eyes that was seen every day. You were a little brother to me, who gave me the fuel every day to continue to command and function here in the PASAT (a company of military police.) You did it quietly, you gained immense respect for all of your subjugation, hugging, supporting, laughing and smiling without asking for anything in return. Your sensitivity and nobility accompanied us all the way and touched all of them … You were a guide to colleagues and officers, you made sure to educate them and lead them to the right path, values, ethics and hard work. ” Lior, Daniel’s soldier, told of a case in which she was ill, and to her surprise Daniel brought her his guitar: “Just knowing that your commander is giving you his guitar that is so important to him, ‘Just play a little, just smile and feel a bit better’ Is a testament to the fact that he trusts you and really cares about you … The strength and motivation to cope with the difficult role I have taken from you, Daniel. “The desire and the aspiration to reach the farthest point came from the right to look at you and learn from you. Sergeant Daniel Halamit fell in the line of duty on July 19, 2011. He was twenty years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. He left behind a bruised and distraught family: mother, sister, grandmother and grandfather and mother’s partner who had been a father since the age of ten. Ohad, the director of the boarding school where he studied, eulogized Daniel: “We are here today, painful and lacking … It’s very natural, when we have something good we want from him more and more … I would like Daniel to continue to be here and to give the world the beauty, warmth, But it’s finished, there’s no consolation, but there’s a news I remind myself of since yesterday – he’s been here for twenty years, we who have known him have been given a great gift, and this gift will remain in everyone’s hands. And one of us, it will not end. ” “Daniel, today we stand here and respect you for the last time you deserve, to the person you are – an angel whose eyes are radiant with happiness, whose lips always smile, that his cheeks are flushed and that his laughter is rolling and loving Today we respect the endless love, the giving, the sacrifice, the good will, the seriousness, the caring, the closeness, the unceasing help, the wisdom, the wit, the greatness, the courage, the sensitivity and the goodness in you. Totally natural, you did not have to strainrule. It is evident to you with dignity, grace, humor, the dear person you are … You went without saying goodbye and I will not part. You were a son, a friend, a soldier, a commander, a commander, each of whom wishes for himself … I say good-bye to you, but this is not a final separation. “My love, you were a role model for me and my admiration … My love, you were a dear man … I’m sure you saw from above how many people came To honor you at the funeral. I will never forget you, I will not forget what you taught me, the way you believed. I’ll send them all to my soldiers … and they will know who Daniel Halmith was and what man he was! “Lior, Daniel’s girlfriend from his time at boarding school, wrote:” I love to see you. But if the best I can get is you in my dreams, then all right, that’s good enough … maybe I sound hallucinatory and delusional, but I can not wait for the resurrection. I have a lot of stuff to tell you. But if we get to talk in a dream it’s good enough … you’re so alive that it’s unbelievable. Even when you are not there – you are there. “And Daniel’s sister’s fund wrote:” … I do not stop thinking about you, even in situations that have nothing to do with you, you’re always in my head. When you were born we made a covenant that you and I are for the next 90 years, that you and I will be side by side, support and be loved, that you and I will be together after all. Now I am alone … Time is running out of my hands. I can not understand with your heart that you are not here anymore. Life goes on and you are not here. Could there be such a thing? Could Daniel be dead, and everything goes on? I understand it in my head but I still do not digest it, I have not accepted it yet. I want you back Daniel. I want you to come with me on Friday nights, I want to fight with you, I want you and I to laugh with Mother about the division of the inheritance. I want to call you because I found a giant spider at home and after you remove it you will get a beer in return. I want to go with you to buy you clothes and explain to you that you can not go to town with pajama and crocs pants and see your innocent look that just does not understand what the story is. I want you back. I miss the faces you do to me, your strange jokes. You are the most modest, the most amazing, the most peculiar and the most special child I know. “On the social network Facebook opens a page in memory of Daniel, where family members and friends share memories and photographs Every year on the anniversary of Daniel’s death, They gather together at the family home in Jerusalem for a special evening, and sing together, accompanied by guitars and organics, the songs he loved to play and sing.