Nathanel was a great guy. Full of spirit, heart, and grit. I started working with Nefesh B'Nefesh as a lone soldier advisor in December 2021. Nathanel was actually one of the very first people I had the pleasure of helping. He was in a tricky place at the time. His plans with Machal had fallen through, but he wasn't ready to give up on serving in Tzahal. I remember talking with him at one of our events at Mike's Place in Jerusalem. He said he didn't care how long it takes, didn't care how much bureaucracy he had to go through, he was doing it. He also punched the electronic punching bag arcade game so hard he may have broken the machine!
It was already several days after October 7th when I heard we had lost him. I was off fighting in my own Miluim unit, so the news came to me a bit late. But he was on my mind through it all. And he still is.