While your mother stayed at home with you, your father and aunt came with me to Nahum's stone setting this morning. It was a gloriously sunny day and his grave is situated on a beautiful Jerusalem hillside where he will rest in peace after such a long and terrible illness.
His brother David, who settled here some years before Nahum, spoke emotionally about how his father had asked him to look after his younger brother when he came to live in Israel. Choking back the tears, David movingly said that now that he can no longer fulfil that duty, he wanted to care for the rest of the family, for Susan and the four sons Nahum had left behind.
Nahum was my brother in law and friend. It is so difficult to come to terms with the fact that I will never see him again. But I have very fond memories of a man who everyone liked. He will be sorely missed.
Grandpa Jonathan
Jerusalem, Israel
