By COLlive reporter
3 bouquets of flowers were placed on the grave of Yehuda Piamenta, father of the musical family who was posthumously revealed as a senior Shabak official.
The Prime Minister’s office sent one and another was from the Yamam, the elite civilian counter-terrorism unit in Israel.
But the third remains a mystery.
Signed “Mehchevre hayerushalmim” (from the Yerusalmi fellows), it’s presence yet another piece in the puzzle about Piamenta’s secret life in the intelligence community.
News about his involvement first broke when Israel Security Agency director Yuval Diskin came to the Kfar Chabad village to comfort the Piamenta family.
“Like many others, you have no idea what your father did for the security of Israel,” Diskin told the stunned musician Avi and Yossi Piamenta.
“I can say that he did a lot more than those who are still with us. Generations of fighters learned from him and I hope and am sure that you will continue in his ways.”
His son Yossi Piamenta admits that even today, much remains cloaked behind a veil of secrecy.
“I have no idea which unit [Diskin] was talking about,” said the son, “but I know that my father had an amazing heart.”
The identity of the sender of the flowers remains unsolved.
To remember and give a memento for such a hidden and special person is appropriate, and praiseworthy, but flowers……………? this is not the Jewish way, perhaps giving tzedokah to one of the causes that the deceased held dear would have been more in keeping with Jewish tradition.
The family should be comforted in their loss and take comfort in who their father was.
MoshiachNow when we will all be reunited with the Rebbe, Rebbetzin and all our loved ones.
Big Kiddush Hashem. May his merit be a blessing for all.
how humbling to know these men walk among us who quietly give their lives to protect ours. Avi n Yossi, I don’t know what you knew and when you knew it, bu tto think the pain of losing a father is now so mixed with something so mysterious and yet familiar. Hashem should bless you in this trying time. The nation which dwells alone mourns with you, The L-rd in whose tefillen it says ‘who is like your nation, Israel’ watches over you, May his Moshaich comfort you.