I found myself attending a funeral today. One of my friends here in Israel was closely related to a famous personality from the world of basketball.
Unfortunately my friend’s relative was found dead in his apartment on Monday morning and suicide is the most likely reason.
While I was at the cemetery today I noticed a row of graves next to the path. Each had Olympic rings on the top and when I looked carefully at the names (I can just about read Hebrew now) I recognised them.
Welcome to the quiet, understated and desperately sad world of Palestinian “Olympic achievement”.
The first tombstone on the left, to me, translates as “Andrew Shpitzer”. Is this an Arabic name?
Please disregard m,y posting. I was not awake fully.