September 13, 2009 – Assaf Ramon z”l

It was such a lovely day until a friend called me with the still-secret news that Assaf Ramon had been killed in a training accident. Both of us stopped breathing in those moments. And as the news spread I am sure many many thousands of people also stopped breathing. That the son of Ilan Ramon, killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, could also die in the sky, is too terrible to bear. And of course our thoughts went next to Rona, the widow and now bereaved mother.