Samuel was one of the most emotionally generous people you will ever meet. If he knew a friend was moving, he would show up to help them even if they never asked for it. He loved children and was a beloved camp counselor with Ha Noar HaOved VeHaLomed youth movement. During his service in the IDF (Israel Defense Force) as a lone soldier, he was a leadership trainer (madrich) in Israel’s Navy and was honored by being named Outstanding Soldier (Mitstayen HaNasi) of the Haifa naval base. Sam loved a party. He also cherished friendships, which he was lucky to have had from childhood until his untimely death at the age of 33. Some of them were with him in the hospital when he breathed his last, and we have met every year at his graveside as a group to celebrate his blessed memory. For a person as full of life as he was to succumb to his incurable cancer at such an early age is hard to accept. His friends started a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for a bone marrow transplant, which, sadly, he never got to use, but on his deathbed, he asked for those funds (if people did not want them back) to be used for children suffering from cancer. As a result, there will be a playroom for those children at Sheba Medical Center named after him.
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