Boikaner had spent part of his youth in San Francisco in the US and had done an undergraduate degree there where he was head of the local Hilel chapter, where he was a passionate advocate for Israel, she said.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-doctor-killed-by-wild-elephant-while-volunteering-in-nepal/

Officials at the Medical School for International Health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where Boikaner had been a student, sent a message to students informing them of his death in what they called “a tragic accident.”

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-doctor-killed-by-wild-elephant-while-volunteering-in-nepal/