A Promising Young Life Prematurely Committed to Sand, NY Times, 5/15/2006

[Coastie for Truth]

They buried Lior Anidzar on Sunday. He was 26. His family and friends, and his new wife, put him in the sand of this southern suburb of Tel Aviv, then keened over his grave. His mother, Yvonne, fainted and was taken away in a wheelchair.

Lior Anidzar worked in a garage, for a dealer of car parts. He was a gregarious young man, and he wanted to open a restaurant of his own.

He was in the north on April 17, during the Passover holiday, but then stopped by the shop near the old Tel Aviv bus station where his wife, Maya, worked. They had been married two weeks, and had lived in their new apartment here for four days.

He wanted to take her to lunch, she said, but she was busy and not hungry. He went to the Rosh Hair restaurant, a working-class place of falafel and shwarma, the Arabic foods, eaten in pita bread, that Israelis have adopted as their own.

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