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• Gavriel Hoter was murdered by terrorists when he
  volunteered to substitute for a friend on kitchen
  duty at Othniel Yeshiva, where he was studying.
• GAVRIEL WAS 17 ½ years old.

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• What was outstanding was the diligence, the
  perseverance and the equality of effort regarding
  everything that had to do with serving G-d.
• He was a perfectly round sphere of positive
  attributes, with no angles or curves. Everything
  was equal.
• Rabbi Neria Mantzur

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HUMILITY

• You did everything with your special serenity,
  always with a smile, with such great modesty and
  without condescension. His Friends
• You were modest and humble and you tried not
  to talk about the good things you did.
• His Brother

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PEACE BETWEEN MAN AND HIS FELLOW

• You knew how to accept each person as he was, and
  you always tried to make peace between members of
  the class (a task which sometimes seemed
  impossible).
• His Classmates

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BY MINIMIZING FOOD

• Gavriel the angel, who ate one meal a day how
  is it that I never noticed it when he visited us?
  He would always say that he had already eaten, or
  that he would eat later.
• You ate small amounts at specific times, and you
  often fasted on Mondays and Thursdays.

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BY MINIMIZING SLEEP

• You made do with very little sleep you were
  the last one to go to sleep, and the first one to
  wake up.
• Gavriel who would get up for pre-dawn prayers
  and stay awake learning until 2 in the morning.

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• When Gavriel did go to sleep, it would be in the
  back of the classroom. He would put four chairs
  together and go to sleep. He would say, Wake
  me at 1200 for Rabbi Ariels class. You would
  look at your watch and see that it was three
  minutes to twelve! In this way he would collect
  a few minutes of sleep here and there.

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IN CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH HIS FRIENDS

• You were pleasant to your friends, so much so
  that everyone everyone loved you. You were
  not aligned with any group or faction. You were
  simply accepted by everybody because of the power
  of your pleasantness, that radiated on everyone.
• Rabbi Yehuda Morag
• It was so important to you to relate to every
  individual personally.

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HONORING FATHER AND MOTHER

• You were a precious child to your dear parents
  Chaim and Elaine. Honor your father and your
  mother Revere your mother and your father
  you kept both of these commandments to the full.
  And how beautifully you treated your
  grandparents with the same respect, with the
  same love for grandchildren are regarded as
  children. Grodner Rabbi Reuben

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HE WAS AN ARTIST, TOO
Story of the Exodus sculptured at age 11
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HELPING OTHERS

• You always looked for opportunities to help,
  to contribute, to influence -- whether it was in
  the class committee or on the student council, in
  defending those who were weaker, or lugging the
  jerry cans of water on every trip.

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FOSTER SISTER

• What I remember about Gavriel is that he
  taught me the knots in scouts and helped me
  with schoolwork when I had difficulty,
• and comforted me when I was homesick for my
  mother, and made me dolls out of plasticine, and
  taught me to say the morning prayers because I
  didnt know what to do in the synagogue every
  morning, and he always did skits with me on
  Sabbath morning, and banged on the table with the
  glasses when we sang songs after Kiddush. And he
  beat me at bowling, and gave me the long shirt he
  was wearing when I was cold, and told me stories
  before I went to sleep, and other good and
  wonderful things.

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JOY

• When he would come to our home, on weekdays and
  especially on the Sabbaths, the house would be
  filled with Torah, joy and purity.

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PRECISION IN KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS

• On trips with the Scouts you would always
  insist on keeping as many commandments as
  possible and on giving merit to the general
  population. On trips during Sukkot, you would
  bring boards and cloth, a hammer and nails, and
  build a sukkah according to Jewish law in the
  hills, in front of hundreds of people who would
  stare in astonishment at this boy of only 12
  keeping the commandments, in spite of the fact
  that you were exempt because of the place and the
  pressures of time. But you wouldnt eat, not even
  a little bite, until that sukkah was up.

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HE WAS A SINGER
Now when we sing your voice will be missing
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CHARACTER IMPROVEMENT

• The scroll of his life is spread before us
  now. A tractate of holiness, of overcoming the
  temptations of this world, of improving
  character.

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USE OF TIME

• The daily schedule he set for himself, besides
  the regular classes of the yeshiva. Includes
  daily exercise, and studying in the lunch break
  for his degree at the Open University.
• An indescribable utilization of time, up to the
  last moment.

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AND THE STUDY OF TORAH SURPASSES THEM ALL
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Our Gavriel was a talmid hachamim (wise,
knowledgeable scholar) in the fullest sense he
occupied himself with Torah regularly, daily,
with incredible diligence, with perseverance and
unbelievable devotion, from morning till evening,
and into the late hours of the night. and in the
course of the day he would immerse himself
totally in learning Torah Babylonian and
Jerusalem Talmud, Mishnah, Jewish law and
character improvement. Rabbi Gavriel Goldman
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• GAVRIEL HOTER ??"? WAS MURDERED ON THE 23RD OF
  TEVET 5763, ON SABBATH EVE OF THE TORAH PORTION
  OF EXODUS.

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In his Memory

• We have founded Midreshet Gavriel
• a center for seminars on midot (character
  traits) and self reflection combining field trips
  around Israel
• http//www.gavriel.org