Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Friends and family attend a ceremony in memory of Israeli soldier Omer Neutra, who was murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, and whose body remains hostage in the Gaza Strip, Ra'anana, Dec. 2, 2024.
(JNS) - Michelle Rich, director of teen travel and international engagement at United Synagogue Youth, laughs as she tells JNS about a memory she has of Omer Neutra, an Israeli-American 22-year-old, whose death on Oct. 7 Israel confirmed on Monday.
On a USY bus trip across the country in 2016, Neutra and his friend came down from the hotel and "they had given each other haircuts," Rich recalled.
"I was like, 'call your parents please,'" she said.
"He was so smiley, and so happy and so jolly," Rich added. "He just moved people in so many different ways. He was a good neshama," a good "soul."
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