Yoram Glass was born in Kibbutz Hefziba in 1951. Yoram lost his father at a young age, and suffered from asthma during his childhood. In addition he was a gifted violinist and student. Consequently, Yoram didn’t have to serve in a combat unit. Nevertheless, Yoram volunteered to serve in the armoured corpses and became a tank commander. Yoram was killed in the Golan Heights on the second day of the Yom Kippur War, 7 October, 1973.
Yoram’s younger brother, Ido, was 11 years old when Yoram was killed. He tells us about their childhood, the initial shock, the coping mechanism, the ways in which the grief and the pain change with time, and more.
Ido is one of the leading documentary producers and directors in Israel. He approaches his subject matter in a deliberately slow, infinitely patient manner that resembles Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy: “We have freedom to find meaning in what we do, and what we experience, or at least in the stance we take when faced with a situation of unchangeable suffering.”
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