Dov Shefi was on his way to sports practice when he heard on the radio about the death of Osama bin Laden.
At that moment a sharp and painful memory struck him - the memory of his son who died in the Twin Towers disaster.
He turned his car around and drove to the cemetery.
[Dov Shefi, Brigadier General (Res.), Attorney-at-Law]:
"First of all I started to cry in my car, and then I was sitting by the grave of our beloved Haggai and wept. My beloved Haggai."
Shefi tells of that fateful day in which the disaster happened.
He and his wife Esther went through hard-to-bear minutes, until it was evident that the worst had happened.
[Dov Shefi, Brigadier General (Res.), Attorney-at-Law]:
"So, I called him, I did not hear his voice, I heard only his voice on an automatic machine, so my wife insisted on calling his wife. I tried to call his wife. At first the phone was occupied, and after a few minutes I talked to her and she confirmed that he was in one of the towers of the World Trade Center because he was invited to address before hundreds directors of banks about his company's production."
The difficult and gruesome images on television confirmed the worst for the family
[Dov Shefi, Brigadier General (Res.), Attorney-at-Law]:
"Then we saw the crash of the south tower first, and afterwards the crash of the northern tower. We did not know exactly in which tower Haggai was, but the fact that the two towers have crashed down, it gave us a feeling of 99% that Haggai was taken from us."
Haggai Sheffi was a multi-degreed and a very gifted person, his parents say that everything he touched was successful.
[Dov Shefi, Brigadier General (Res.), Attorney-at-Law]:
"He was a loyal son, he had a peace-loving personality. He was a loyal husband to his wife, Sigal. He was a loyal father, a loving father, who cared for his kids."
Despite the world's elation, the death of Osama bin Laden will not bring Haggai back to life and return him to his family.
Dov Shefi says he does not feel any comfort from bin Laden's death, only the satisfaction that justice has been done
Reporter:Janet Zrian Photographer:Anat Markram
NTD, Israel
