Assaf Shani, of blessed memory, was the son of Batsheva and Rami Shani.
Assaf, who from early childhood had absorbed his father’s love for the world of steel production, used to work in the company’s processing facilities during summer vacation.
The company’s veteran employees remember Assaf as a pleasant, humble, and smart boy, along with his diligence at work and his strong desire to learn and contribute.
Upon completing his studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion, where he graduated with honors, Assi chose to integrate into the company’s facilities and apprentice there over other options open to him.
Assi began his integration into the company as an engineer in the company’s melting facility. From the very beginning of his work, he demonstrated determination and initiative, never letting up or giving up, researching and studying every subject to its fullest, with the goal of understanding from the ground up the operation of this type of facility.
Later in his career at the company, Assi managed the company’s scrap recycling and processing company, where he learned to endear himself to all the scrap suppliers and speak their language.
With the departure of the melting facility manager, it was only natural that Assi would be appointed as the facility manager in his place.
Throughout his whole career as facility manager, Assi made sure to be “one among equals” with each of the facility’s employees, and always demanded more of himself, which was reflected in the many hours of work he put in at the facility, as well as travelling every single day from his home in Moshav Rishpon to Akko.
Assi’s dedication to the facility was reflected in countless cases; for example, in any case of a malfunction at the facility, he would make sure to arrive and not leave until a solution was found.
And so, during the Second Lebanon War, he insisted on coming to the facility every day, even though at that time he was supposed to take a vacation to prepare for the entrance exams for a Master’s degree in business administration.
Assi’s untimely death struck our entire company and left a deep scar and a huge void in all our employees, both veterans and young people.
Among the special qualities of the Late Assi, including humility alongside strength, generosity, wisdom, and perseverance, the most characteristic qualities seen in his work were his curiosity, his search for new challenges, and his determination to learn and bring every project he was presented with to a successful conclusion.
Rami, Assaf’s father and the controlling owner of Hod Assaf Industries, a man of work and action whose entire world is the steel industry and its branches, speaks candidly about the company and the untimely death of his son Assaf.