Daniel Sheinkerman, 25: Bar owner who sought to ‘conquer the world’
Murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova festival on October 7
Daniel Sheinkerman, 25, from Holon, was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7.
Daniel attended the rave with a group of friends including Yarden Buskila. When the attack began they tried to flee the site of the rave but were shot at and split up, with Daniel and Yarden heading together in one direction.
They tried to help treat wounded partygoers at the festival and then hid behind a large trash receptacle before deciding to flee and hide elsewhere, where they were both ultimately slain.
Daniel was buried on October 15 in Holon. He is survived by his parents, Svitlana and Felix and his sister Rita.
Born in Tel Aviv, Daniel grew up in Holon, to parents who had immigrated to Israel seven years earlier from Ukraine, according to a municipal eulogy.
He attended local schools and loved sports, playing ice hockey, including on the national youth team, reads a state eulogy.
After finishing high school he enlisted in the IDF and served in the Paratrooper Brigade’s reconnaissance battalion, including during his reserve duty. Following his release he headed to South America to travel around the continent, but had to cut short his trip due to the COVID outbreak.
Daniel was involved in a large number of professional and personal interests. He was a part owner of the Dizzy Frishdon bar in Tel Aviv, a Krav Maga coach, a marketing director with the Issta Sport Group and a burgeoning DJ who loved music festivals and nightlife.
He doted on his niece and nephew and was eagerly awaiting the birth of his sister’s third child — who was born two months after he was slain and named Luka Daniel.
A week after a deadly terrorist attack on a restaurant not far from Dizzy Frishdon on Dizengoff Street, Daniel told the Kan public broadcaster that “what unites us as a nation is that we know how to pick ourselves up quickly and continue with normal life, go back to our day to day.”
In a post on Instagram, the bar eulogized “Daniel, our love. Your spirit, your smile, your generosity was and always will be a part of this place. Everyone who met you loved you. How could they not?… Our heart is broken. You were taken too soon.”
Marking a year since he was killed, Daniel’s father, Felix, wrote on Facebook that “a year has passed and I still can’t believe it happened. As time passes your absence is only greater and greater, I miss you.”
Daniel’s older sister, Rita, shared on social media the eulogy she read at his funeral, to “my little and beloved brother.”
“You were always surrounded by friends, I couldn’t walk with you on the street without you knowing everyone who passed,” she wrote. “You had a giant heart that was always concerned first with others and only after with yourself. Even on that cursed Saturday you stopped and helped someone who was wounded in an ambulance even if it meant you were left behind.”
Rita said Daniel had “so many more plans for the future, you always wanted to conquer the world, to do more and more and you weren’t satisfied with just a little… I don’t know how to even begin filling the enormous hole in my heart. It’s true that everything around keeps going as usual, but my children can no longer play with Uncle Danny, and we’ll never meet the girl who would win your heart, our trek overseas, our ski trip and our marathon will remain as dreams.”
