American-Israeli Victim , Daniel Lewin, Died at 31 in 9/11 New York's Attack We Can't Forget:

 Nadene Goldoot 

 Chaya Holly Kent Goldberg, one of the Americans in my aliyah group.  Her husband and Danny and myself were in the program getting ready to be teachers in Israel, and she just shared with with all of us on Facebook.  Chaya, it was so touching, that I have to also share on my blog.  Re🐗Public Haifa                           

Daniel Mark Lewin, sometimes spelled Levin, was an American–Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded internet company Akamai Technologies. Born: May 14, 1970, Denver, CO

At 21, he was an elite special forces officer, at 28, he received a doctorate from the world's most prestigious university, and at 30, he became the richest Israeli in the world.  A passenger on board American Airlines Flight 11, it is believed that Lewin was stabbed to death by Satam al-Suqami, one of the hijackers of that flight, and was the first victim of the September 11th attacks.

 The 9/11 Commission speculated that Lewin, who had served four years in the Israeli military, may have attempted to confront Atta or Omari, who had been seated in front of him, not knowing that al-Suqami was sitting just behind him. Lewin was identified as the first victim of the September 11 attacks. 

He was born May 14, 1970 and died at 31 and his family moved to Israel when he was 14 in 1984, 4 years after I had moved there in 1980.

• 1995 – Technion named him the year's Outstanding Student in Computer Engineering.
• 1998 – Morris Joseph Levin Award for Best Masterworks Thesis Presentation at MIT. 

Daniel Mark Lewin / Levin was one of those Jewish boys who are changing the world. And then, at the intersection of nineties and zeroes, there were especially many of them: Bryn, Paige, Zuckerberg, Kum, Muscovitz, Blecharzhik and he, Daniel Mark Levin.

He lived in Haifa. Walked the same streets as us. But he saw the world as he sees himself much later. Seeing it with his eyes.

In his youth, Daniel won the contest "Mr. Israel" because this Haifa-grown boy had the will of steel. By the age of 30, he had created an Internet company worth $ 40 billion and became the richest Israeli on the planet (personal capital 6 billion).

Then, September 11, 2001 Daniel Levine was just 31 and had a huge, long life ahead of him and nothing can and should stop him. It was unimaginable to imagine any other way.

According to a joint investigation by the CIA and FBI, he was the only one who tried to stop the terrorists who hijacked the planes during the attack on the United States. His body was found in rubble. Found with its throat slit. He turned out to be the only one who tried to stop the killers and perhaps for the first time in his life he failed. If it were different, Daniel would change the world again, as he always did.

Not just an officer, a billionaire and a father of two young children was killed. On September 11, 2001 a man who invented our present world with you in many ways was killed.

A man who believed in the mind of Man and in the greatness of Man.

May 14 is his birthday. He will forever be 31

Blessed be the memory of Daniel Mark Levin, son of Charles and Peggy, father of Nitzan and Itamar. The genius in life. The Hero in the Death.

Daniel Levin may his memory be a blessing

Lewin is the subject of the 2013 biography No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet by Molly Knight Raskin. 

                                                     

 Resource: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lewin