Shmuel Boikaner z’l, a 30-year-old Israeli medical student, was killed on Friday after he was attacked by an elephant in a national park in southern Nepal.
According to reports, Boikaner, z’l, entered the park alone on a bicycle and was attacked by the elephant when he stopped to take pictures. The authorities found his body and identified him from his driver’s license in his wallet.
Boikaner, a resident, at the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, was in Nepal with an Israeli delegation volunteering in a local hospital.
His mother told Channel 12 News: “My son was supposed to return home on Thursday. He worked in the hospital in Nepal because he wanted to provide medical assistance in the third world. He dedicated his entire life to giving.”
“He chose to study medicine because he saw it as a mission. It’s hard to explain how much he wanted to be a doctor and davka at the end of the challenging path, while volunteering, he was killed.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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A gift given and one returned…..one with a heart , a soul and a desire to help humanity…..very much different and higher than all of those who dis our society and our country all in mask for their own gain….BDE