Timestamp: 11 October 2023 @ 2200 Pacific
By Maya Mirsky | October 9, 2023
"The world should know about people who are good people, and brave."
Rabbi Yonatan Cohen of Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley spoke with heavy grief in his voice about his 19-year-old nephew, Yoav Malayev, who was killed in the Hamas attack on Israel on Saturday.
Malayev, a second lieutenant in the 7th Armored Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces, was on duty at the Zikim base near the border with Gaza. The family was told Malayev died when the base came under attack, as well as the basic outline of what occurred.
"When the attacks started, he realized there was only one woman soldier standing guard," Cohen said. Malayev helped split up the group of soldiers he was with for defense and then ran to join the gate guard.
"He acted like a commander. He acted like an adult," Cohen said through tears.
The two were confronted by 10 attackers.
"He fought them," Cohen said. "He protected the other soldier with his body and killed four of the 10 before he was overcome by them."
Cohen said that strength and heart was typical of Malayev. "Yoav did Yoav," he said. "Of course he did."
Cohen described Malayev as a strong, persistent young man who retained a childlike innocence even as he grew.
"He was a rare combination," Cohen said. "He was a very quiet and internal person with tremendous resilience."
His mother, Maya Cohen-Malayev, is Cohen's sister. She and her husband, Alex Malayev, have three other children, ages 16, 12 and 7.
Cohen's parents were visiting the Bay Area at the time of the attack, and he praised Marco Sermoneta, the S.F.-based Israeli consul general of the Pacific Northwest, for helping them return to Israel in time for the funeral.
Beth Israel, a Modern Orthodox congregation, held a community vigil Monday evening for Israel and also honored Malayev. Cohen has since left to be with his grieving family in Israel.
He also called on Bay Area Jews to come together, especially unaffiliated Jews. Whether it's going to a synagogue or local gathering, he urged Jews to draw on the incredible power of community.
"Don't be alone in this moment," he said.
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Source: https://jweekly.com/2023/10/09/19-year-old-nephew-of-berkeley-rabbi-killed-during-attack-on-israel/
Comment: We think Rabbi Yonatan Cohen should register as a foreign agent.
He moves to California, but sends all his descendants to special schools where they are taught racism and bigotry. He has no interest in assimilation. We think he is here for the money.
He encourages his own family members to turn their backs on the United States, to which he has no loyalty, and to go to another country to serve in their military.
The rabbi is shocked - shocked, I tell you! - to discover that the young man who he brought up to serve in the military of a foreign country, where he points weapons at unarmed women and children, has been killed ... by Moslems, who are sick and tired of watching Jews point weapons at their women and children because they are not Jewish, and, therefore, legitimate targets.
We suspect that 19-year-old lieutenant rushed to the gate because he was the one who assigned just one woman to guard the gate, while everyone else partied. The responsibility is his alone.
We think he died as a direct result of the arrogance he absorbed from the schools he went to, where he was repeatedly told that he was special and better than those surrounding him, and that the highest form of public service that he could engage in was to carry weapons and help oppress non-Jews in a foreign country he had never lived in.
We suspect that the only reason this 19-year-old child who could barely grow a mustache is a second lieutenant in the Israeli Army is because his Uncle Cohen, the rabbi, pulled strings. That would make Rabbi Cohen directly responsible for his nephew's death and many others - we think the Rabbi put his lust for political influence ahead of his duty to his family, or Israel, for that matter.
We think any army that commissions 19-year-olds, fresh out of high school, as second lieutenants, and places them in charge of military base security, deserves what it gets.
This is the natural consequence of relentless self-promotion. Eventually the self-promoters begin to believe their own propaganda. It also looks good on resumes, when the child returns to California and goes looking for a job, as a manager - but with no experience - in Silicon Valley, working for a dot-com that is owned by one of his uncle's buddies.
The kid has three younger brothers or sisters. No doubt, they all want to grow up so they can go kill Moslems and revenge their dead older brother. And so the cycle of violence is renewed.
What did the rabbi think was going to happen? It's pretty obvious - Rabbi Cohen thought that his nephew would kill Moslems; not the other way around.
We think Rabbi Cohen returned to Israel to escape his sister's anger at him for having encouragd her first-born child to waste his life fighting for another country, in an undeclared war, against unarmed women and children, half way around the world. This would imply that Rabbi Cohen does not have the courage of his convictions.
We repeat ourselves: We think Rabbi Yonatan Cohen should register as a foreign agent. We do not think he has any loyalty to the United States and is just here for the money.