No longer a lone soldier: First Sergeant Shawn Carmeli, who fell in battle in Gaza, was buried today in the Haifa cemetery with about twenty thousand people marching behind his coffin.<\/p>\r\n
Sean Carmeli, 21, was a soldier in the Golani Brigade and lived in Ra'anana. Carmeli was born in Texas and at the age of 16 immigrated to Israel, where his two sisters were already living.<\/p>\r\n
\""He's like my second brother," his good friend Alex Cortese told Walla. "I have no words to describe what a wonderful person he is. We spoke not long ago and he told me, 'I don't want Gaza again.' But he told his company commander that he went in, even though he had an ankle injury. That shows what kind of person he is.".<\/p>\r\n
During the day, Sean's friends, as well as the Maccabi Haifa sports team, who were concerned about a lack of participants, contacted and asked forThe public was invited to accompany Sean on his final journey. The response was great and tens of thousands of people, as mentioned, accompanied the soldier to his final resting place. Also\u00a0<\/span>Sean's parents, Talia and Alon, came to Israel and attended the funeral.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fearing a lack of participants, friends of Shawn Carmeli, as well as the Maccabi Haifa sports team, issued a call for the public to attend his funeral. \u2022 His friend: "He chose to enter Gaza even though he had an injured ankle"\"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[6374,5598,2606,6375],"class_list":["post-55360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24","tag-6374","tag-5598","tag-2606","tag-6375"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n