Anucha ‘Jackky’ Sophakul, 27: Thai worker planned to farm back home
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kissufim on October 7
Anucha “Jackky” Sophakul, 27, a laborer from the Prajaksilpakom District in the Udon Thani province of Thailand, was murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kissufim on October 7.
He was slain alongside his friend and fellow agricultural worker, Jakkapong Janthasena, while hiding inside a bunker, according to a local Thai news outlet. In total, six Thai workers were slain on the kibbutz that day.
His body arrived back in Thailand on October 20, and he was cremated in a Buddhist religious ceremony on October 23. He is survived by his parents, Panya and Somphit, his grandparents Sanit and Chan, and two brothers.
The eldest of the three children in the family, Anucha had been working in agriculture in Israel for four years out of a five-year contract, according to a Thai news outlet. He had been sending money regularly back to his family, and had already paid off all his debts and helped them build a new home.
The news site said that when Anucha’s five years were up in Israel, he planned to buy cows for his parents to raise when he returned home and “to farm and live a self-sufficient life.”
The website described him as “a good-natured person with a spirit of volunteerism,” who was often called on to talk to wayward youth in the village to convince them to behave for their parents, “making him beloved by the villagers.”
His grandmother, Sanit, told a local news outlet that she spoke to Anucha often while he was in Israel and was always worried about him, and after hearing of the Hamas attack she was unable to contact him and feared that he had been killed. “Now I’m very sad. My beloved grandson is no longer alive and has become a ghost.”
At his funeral, his mother, Somphit, said that he should “be proud” that many important officials came to the ceremony, and asked him “to go to heaven and become an angel and in the next life, let him be my son again,” according to a local outlet.
