Daily Briefing Aug. 24: Day 323 – Spotlight on ToI’s Those We Have Lost memorial project
Project coordinator Amy Spiro joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan to speak about 10 individuals who have fallen on or since October 7 whose stories made a mark
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWelcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Those We Have Lost project coordinator Amy Spiro joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.
Today, we’re dedicating the daily podcast’s time to stories of civilians and soldiers who have fallen since October 7. We’ve each chosen 10 individuals to focus on and we’ll explain why they moved us.
We also hear updates from Spiro on how many of the over 1,600 individuals who were killed on or after October 7 during this war with Hamas that we have been able to write memorials for.
For news updates, please check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing live blog.
Discussed articles include:
Michal Zarbailov, 60: Daycare worker was on her way to Dead Sea
Hava Ben Ami, 78: Walked to pre-state Israel by foot from Syria
Kobi Shmaya, 47 & Sgt. Osher Shmaya, 19: Father & son slain together
Sgt. 1st Class Shay Pizem, 23: Had only 2 weeks with his daughter
Roland and Ronit Sultan, 68 & 55: Immigrant couple built kibbutz life
Staff Sgt. Adi Baruch, 23: Boyfriend proposed to her at her funeral
Bnayahu Bitton, 22: Musician who always had a guitar at hand
Maj. Sagi Golan, 30: Killed 13 days before wedding to his boyfriend
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