Shlomo Rindenow, one of the two IDF soldiers killed in a grenade blast on the border with Syria Sunday morning, was one of five brothers who moved to Israel from New Jersey to volunteer in the Israeli military, his brother tells The Times of Israel.
“All he wanted to do was help out,” his older brother, Jeffrey Tower, tells The Times of Israel.
Rindenow moved to Israel from Passaic, New Jersey, when he was 18 and spent a year volunteering with a search and rescue organization in Israel, Tower said.
Israeli soldiers evacuate a wounded soldier following a grenade explosion near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 17, 2016. (AFP / JALAA MAREY)
His brother affectionately remembers him as a “bookworm” and someone passionate about giving.
Rindenow’s older brother Gami, 22, currently serves in the paratroopers.
Rindenow’s parents were to board a flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Israel. Details of the funeral arrangements hadn’t yet been made, Tower says.
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