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Your boy always had only one word in his mouth, ‘Abba,’ Yehudi Edri said on Friday as he eulogized his son-in-law, Yotam Ovadia, 31.

 

He was where nobody would ever want to be, situated in a crowded funeral hall in Jerusalem Har Hamenuhot cemetery where he had to say goodbye to a dearly beloved family member far too soon. His tearful goodbye to Yotam, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist on Thursday night in his home community of Adam, reflected a pain that most felt as shockwaves continue spreading after such a senseless death, according to the Jerusalem Post.

 

A photograph taken that day, and circulated to the media, showed Yotam with his wife Tal and their two small children, Harrel and Itay, now who don’t have a father.

 

On Friday, Yotam’s shroud covered body was laid out in front of Edri as he spoke. His family gathered around it, touching and caressing the white cloth, according to The Jerusalem Post.

 

The scene got particularly hard to swallow when family members would occasionally yell out in grief and sorrow, “Yotam, Yotam.”

 

Edri said, “You were everything to Tal, Harrel and Itay.” He struggled to read his statements as he fought back tears that were going to stream down his face no matter what.

 

“The heart breaks at the sound of your little son calling ‘Abba, Abba.’”

 

The family was in “shock and panic” and “did not have a good feeling,” Edri said while describing the moments after learning of what happened. “We flew to Jerusalem and we got to the hospital with the hope that he would survive.”

 

Doctors unfortunately confirmed the worst and told the family that Yotam was no longer with them.

 

“We could not comprehend it, how could we think that Yotam would not return to his wife, my beloved daughter, and to his small children that still have a bottle in their hands,” Edri said.

 

“We do not understand how this [tragedy] befell us,” he said.

 

“We feel as if we are in a [nightmare] that will soon end and you will return to us, but reality is different.”

 

 

 

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