We just stood for several minutes, thinking. I had short talks with him on several occasions, and I appreciated him a lot. During the Arava Treaty signing, I managed to get close to him and to exchange with him several sentences. On a day like this you don't think about basketball, as usual, but only about the loss of a great man. But beyond everything, the disaster and the shock, this assassi- nation is strongly connected with violence.
Verbal violence exists on basketball courts as well, and it usually results in physical violence.
Basic codes of behavior were broken, and we closed our eyes and didn't see what have we allowed to grow up within us. I was trembling. I couldn't sleep for a whole day. I appreciated him a lot as a leader and a personality, though I did not agree with his opinions. But I loved him as a man.