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Rabbi Elnatan Hurvitz HY"D
Elnatan (Eli), son of Moshe, born in Kfar Ra'eh, where his father served as rabbi at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva, on the 22nd of Av 5761 (31 August 1951). A few months later, the family moved to the United States. He grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, where his father served as school principal and rabbi of the Jewish community. When he was 16, Eli returned to Israel alone. After returning to Israel he lived with relatives in Kibbutz Hulata in the Hula Valley. During this period he became very attached to the work of the land, and especially liked to work in growing flowers. (He said that once he dug a hole and entered it, to feel what a tree feels when it is planted). When he reached the age of conscription, Eli joined the IDF and served in the paratroopers. At that time, the entire Hurvitz family returned to Israel. At his parents' home, he met Dina, who was a pupil at his father's school in the United States. Later, when she came to study at a college in Israel, she often stayed at the family home. The relationship between the two was strong and loving from the start. Together they formed a special way of life, together re-establishing the love of life from the Torah. The wedding was on the 12th of Av 5736. Eli studied at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem at the time of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, and devoted himself entirely to clarifying the path by adhering to his teachers: Rabbi Oded Wolansky and Rabbi Tzvi Tau. To Eli And Dina had four children: Batsheva, Zvi, Nechama and Shulamit. The family moved to Kiryat Arba in 1984. Since then, Rabbi Eli has taught Torah in many places, including the Shavei Hevron Yeshiva, his main place of work, the Midreshet HaRova in Old Jerusalem, Mitzpe Ramon, Tel Aviv and Netzarim. In my spare time, Eli, with gold hands, was a lot of carpenters. Rabbi Eli Hurvitz was known for his moderate views, as well as for his devotion to Greater Israel. He disliked violence among Jews and Arabs alike, and did everything in his power to bridge the gap between the peoples and the camps, including in many meetings with members of the "Peace Generation".
On Friday evening, Wednesday, March 7, 2003, a group of terrorists infiltrated Kiryat Arba. They opened fire and wounded a woman. Then they broke into the house of the Hurvitz family during the Sabbath eve meal, chased the couple from among the rooms and shot Eli and his wife Dinah when they were standing hugged. The terrorists continued to fire, and one of them even detonated an explosive belt before they were liquidated in the kitchen of the house by the emergency squad that rushed to the place (whose members were Rabbi Eli's students). Rabbi Eli Hurvitz was 51 years old when he died. Survived by a son, three daughters and grandchildren. Was buried alongside his wife in the cemetery on Har HaMenuhot in Jerusalem. The family eulogized To their parents: "Rabbi Eli and Dina have the attribute of the patriarchs: boundless love for every person. Hundreds of people huddled in their shadows, consulting them on every issue. There was unlimited devotion to every person with every problem. Their house was open to everyone at any time. They lived their lives out of the Torah, and were able to open the Torah to the world of music, science and philosophy, but their art was the art of the soul, with a lot of humor!
The intense love between them radiated in all directions. Until their last day, they behaved like a young couple on a honeymoon, and so on Friday, on the eve of their death, when they walked together on the hill of thorams in the Valley of Elah and dipped in a sea of flowers".
Shavei Hevron Yeshiva
Elnatan (Eli), son of Moshe, born in Kfar Ra'eh, where his father served as rabbi at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva, on the 22nd of Av 5761 (31 August 1951). A few months later, the family moved to the United States. He grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, where his father served as school principal and rabbi of the Jewish community. When he was 16, Eli returned to Israel alone. After returning to Israel he lived with relatives in Kibbutz Hulata in the Hula Valley. During this period he became very attached to the work of the land, and especially liked to work in growing flowers. (He said that once he dug a hole and entered it, to feel what a tree feels when it is planted). When he reached the age of conscription, Eli joined the IDF and served in the paratroopers. At that time, the entire Hurvitz family returned to Israel. At his parents' home, he met Dina, who was a pupil at his father's school in the United States. Later, when she came to study at a college in Israel, she often stayed at the family home. The relationship between the two was strong and loving from the start. Together they formed a special way of life, together re-establishing the love of life from the Torah. The wedding was on the 12th of Av 5736. Eli studied at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem at the time of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, and devoted himself entirely to clarifying the path by adhering to his teachers: Rabbi Oded Wolansky and Rabbi Tzvi Tau. To Eli And Dina had four children: Batsheva, Zvi, Nechama and Shulamit. The family moved to Kiryat Arba in 1984. Since then, Rabbi Eli has taught Torah in many places, including the Shavei Hevron Yeshiva, his main place of work, the Midreshet HaRova in Old Jerusalem, Mitzpe Ramon, Tel Aviv and Netzarim. In my spare time, Eli, with gold hands, was a lot of carpenters. Rabbi Eli Hurvitz was known for his moderate views, as well as for his devotion to Greater Israel. He disliked violence among Jews and Arabs alike, and did everything in his power to bridge the gap between the peoples and the camps, including in many meetings with members of the "Peace Generation".
On Friday evening, Wednesday, March 7, 2003, a group of terrorists infiltrated Kiryat Arba. They opened fire and wounded a woman. Then they broke into the house of the Hurvitz family during the Sabbath eve meal, chased the couple from among the rooms and shot Eli and his wife Dinah when they were standing hugged. The terrorists continued to fire, and one of them even detonated an explosive belt before they were liquidated in the kitchen of the house by the emergency squad that rushed to the place (whose members were Rabbi Eli's students). Rabbi Eli Hurvitz was 51 years old when he died. Survived by a son, three daughters and grandchildren. Was buried alongside his wife in the cemetery on Har HaMenuhot in Jerusalem. The family eulogized To their parents: "Rabbi Eli and Dina have the attribute of the patriarchs: boundless love for every person. Hundreds of people huddled in their shadows, consulting them on every issue. There was unlimited devotion to every person with every problem. Their house was open to everyone at any time. They lived their lives out of the Torah, and were able to open the Torah to the world of music, science and philosophy, but their art was the art of the soul, with a lot of humor!
The intense love between them radiated in all directions. Until their last day, they behaved like a young couple on a honeymoon, and so on Friday, on the eve of their death, when they walked together on the hill of thorams in the Valley of Elah and dipped in a sea of flowers".
Shavei Hevron Yeshiva
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