I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

In 1948 at the age of 20 he joined the Haganah (which shortly afterwards became the Israeli Defence Forces) and fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War which began after Israel declared statehood. " Other celebrity hairstylists also commented on his death. Vidal: The Autobiography.

Vidal Sassoon CBE (17 January 1928 – 9 May 2012) was a British hairdresser businessman and philanthropist. He is credited with creating a simple geometric "Bauhaus-inspired" hair style also called the wedge bob.