In his funeral, his funeral was an amazing and heartbreaking Le Vaya, what we call, with a lot of music, a lot of music there, because people who knew Liosi knew that, you know, the violin was a perfect way of him to reveal his beautiful soul.

He'd been doing that for many years.

Everywhere he would go, the violin was with him.

He quite often plays a violin when his eyes are closed.

And he suddenly leaves the vision of what goes around and focuses first of all inside and then suddenly outside and connects.

It's very, I mean I would say he's a person of an M-16 and a violin both together.

And he had the fine art of taking each one at the time, whatever was needed at that point.

Hey listeners, it's Mishi.

So, as you know, during these incredibly difficult days, we're trying to bring you voices we're hearing among and around us.

These aren't stories, they're just quick conversations, or postcards really, that try to capture

slivers of life right now.

As of today, more than 400 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the war.

Each one of those deaths, of course, not only marks the end of a life, but also shatters a family, a community,

a tribe. And that ripple effect, that communal grieving, was palpable following the death

of reservist Josie Hirschkowitz, the 44-year-old principal of the religious Zionist Pelech School for Boys in Jerusalem,

who was killed on Friday, November 10th. Like Yossi, his dear friend and colleague

Shalom Weil has devoted his life to education. Over the years, Shalom is taught, founded schools, and served as a principal.

And ever since the war broke out, he's been working tirelessly to build educational

frameworks for those impacted by it most, the families of victims, survivors, the vacuees.

But our producers Mitch Ginsberg, Alexander Mueller, and Jael Ben-Hurin,

asked him to come into the studio not to talk about his own admirable work,

but rather to talk about his soulmate, Yossi,

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