Rotem had a winning smile, a smile that was engraved on the hearts of everyone who knew him. Rotem had a huge and sensitive heart, always helping, interested, encouraging; next to Rotem it was impossible to be sad. He always knew how to say the magic words with his familiar smile and the sadness would disappear.

Rotem was the first in everything, even in battle in Kfar Aza, the first to rush to save civilians, to fight, until he was hit and his heart stopped. Rotem was always surrounded by friends and now by angels.

Rotem fell in battle in Kfar Aza on the Black Shabbat, on 7.10.23.

At every family gathering, Rotem would not give up the Malabi, he always ate his portion with all the toppings and lots of them. Every Malabi that was there, everyone knew that this boy would eat a quarter of it. In his wallet after his death, a card was found for a known Malabi that he hadn’t yet tried.