Dozens of friends gathered at a Brooklyn chapel yesterday for the funeral of Yaniv Tzvi, 24, a restaurant manager who was stabbed to death last week by a disgruntled former employee.
The young Israeli was remembered as a bright and happy “people person,” who gave up a career as an engineer because dealing with the public appealed to him more than crunching numbers all day.
“He was always worried that his fellow co-workers weren’t happy,” said Sol Mayer, 52, a friend of Tzvi who attended the ceremony at the Shomri Hadas Chaples in Borough Park.
“He would tell them, ‘You smile, and people will smile with you. But you cry, and you cry alone.’ ”
Tzvi made a lot of friends in his time in America, but he also made one enemy – and that cost him his life Thursday.
A delivery man whom he fired from the Café K kosher restaurant returned and stabbed him several times in the chest and stomach in front of 20 diners.
The man has not been identified by cops and is on the lam.
Pals said Tzvi came to the United States after serving three years in the Israeli army.