Memento of IDF jawan stolen from family for second time

A hard drive containing photos and written correspondence Bnaya RubelA soldier and his family, who were martyred during Operation Protective Edge, were stolen from his brother’s house on Saturday night. Unknown men who broke into the brother’s house stole the drive on which Rubel’s last memories were kept. The incident comes nearly four years after a similar incident with the family, when Rubel’s father Zev’s phone, containing photos and messages sent by Banaya, was stolen from his personal bag inside his vehicle. However, a few days after the previous break-in, the phone was returned.

Saint-Sergeant. Banaya Rubel was killed in an encounter with terrorists in the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014. He is survived by his parents and two brothers – Lil and Yarin, and a half-brother – Tomar Arik.

said yesterday gonna! That while we were sleeping, thieves came in, and woke up early in the morning and saw what was in the house scattered in the courtyard. Among the items taken, which included laptops and money, was also a hard drive that “contained all the material: material from Made’s cell phone, events over the past seven years, all kinds of material that his friends gave us. Correspondence.” Everything. I backed it up on the drive and I don’t have that stuff anymore.”

“The feeling that they have entered our private sector is disturbing,” Yarin said. “The crisis is only exacerbated by the fact that it was done while we were sleeping at home. They took the laptop, mine and my wife, money, my old cell phone, wireless headphones and memories of his son.”

Rubel explained that the grim act made him feel that his brother’s physical memory was also taken away from him. “It brings me back to the feelings of loss I once experienced. What other memory remains besides the pictures of the made? [These are] Feelings that aren’t easy.”

Yarin calls on the thieves to leave the drive they took near the family home so that citizens can trace it and return it to the bereaved family. “I ask that the one who took it leave it because it has no monetary value, but it has sentimental value,” he insisted.

In a Facebook post published today by Yarin’s wife Mayan, which received thousands of shares, she asked for assistance in locating the drive: “Tonight they broke into our house on Hasipun Street, Rishon Legion. Among the things taken were A hard drive was made of all the memories that were lost during operation protective edge. If anyone has heard or accessed the drive – please help us get it back to us. Its monetary value is small, but its sentimental value is priceless.”

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