Unusual moments occurred today (Monday) at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
On the morning of October 7, a groom, a Chabad follower, arrived at the grave of Aner Elyakim Shapira, a Nahal patrol soldier who saved the lives of nine people who fled the massacre at the Nova Festival and found shelter in the "death shelter" near Reim. He was wearing a new hat and shirkat, a gartel around his waist, and holding an invitation to his wedding.
It was Aharon Noah Freiman, a resident of Jerusalem, who today entered under the canopy and established a house in Israel.
Freiman chose, before the wedding, to visit the grave of the hero of Israel, the fourteenth.
A few months ago, Freiman, with Shapira's family, organized the printing of the Tanya - the foundational book of Chabad Hasidism, written by the elderly Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman - in memory of Aner the Younger in Migonit, where he was murdered in an envelope.
Since then, his friends told the COL website, he has become very attached to Aner's story, and on the most important day of his life, he chose to come and recite a chapter of Psalms at his grave, before traveling to the event hall in Kfar Chabad.
Freiman also had a prepared, bound copy of the Tanya that he had printed in 'Migonit HaMoot', and he placed it on Shapira's grave with excitement.
Next to the book he placed the wedding invitation.
Present at the cemetery at that time was the brother of soldier Roi Dawi, a Givati fighter who fell in Cheshvan last year in the northern Gaza Strip. The groom did not miss the opportunity and placed tefillin with him.
The story of Aner Shapira, the late, is one of the heroic stories of the war: When the Hamas attack began, his commander called him and summoned him to the Sufa outpost. On his way to the base, Shapira stopped and entered a shelter at the entrance to Ra'im due to shooting at him. About 30 people found shelter in the shelter, having arrived there after fleeing the massive rocket fire.
According to the survivors' testimonies, published on Wikipedia, Shapira was the last to enter the shelter. As soon as he entered, he calmed the young men, tried to contact his unit and call for rescue. After a while, he noticed that the sounds of gunfire were getting closer to the shelter. Shapira equipped himself with a broken bottle and stood at the entrance to the shelter in order to launch an attack. He announced: "If I don't succeed or get hit, someone after me will try to do the same thing."
Hamas terrorists surrounded the shelter where the escapees were taking refuge. They then began throwing hand grenades one after another through the shelter's opening, aiming to harm its occupants.
Shapira, who was standing next to the entrance of the shelter, stopped the grenades thrown by the terrorists and threw them back out of the shelter.
Anar managed to throw eight grenades back. When the terrorists saw that they were unable to subdue him with grenades, they fired an RPG rocket-propelled grenade at the missile, and Anar was killed.
The entire incident was filmed on a windshield camera of a car parked at the scene. The video went viral online and increased exposure to Shapira's heroic story, alongside the testimonies of the survivors.
After he was murdered, the terrorists entered the shelter and violently dragged out people who had survived the attack, some of whom were injured to varying degrees, loaded them into pickup trucks and kidnapped them to the Gaza Strip.
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