Dor Toar, 27: Fitness enthusiast was ‘loved by everyone’
Murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7
Dor Toar, 27, from Mishmar Ayalon, was murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7.
He attended the rave with four close childhood friends – Eden Moshe, Ben Binyamin Cohen, Tamar Gutman and Yiftah Twig — who were all slain in the attack that day.
When the rocket fire began, the friends split up, and Dor, Eden and Ben left via car, and were shot dead by Hamas terrorists lying in wait along the highway.
It took almost three weeks for Dor’s body to be identified, and he was buried in the Gezer Regional Cemetery outside Modiin on October 25. Ultimately, all five of the friends were buried side by side.
Dor is survived by his parents, Vered and Amir, and his sister, Gal. During the weeks that Dor was still considered missing, Gal gave birth to her first child, “a niece who Dor was waiting for so much that he’ll never get to meet,” his mother said.
Born and raised in Mishmar Ayalon, a small community near Modiin, Dor got into physical fitness from a young age, working out seriously from age 14 and learning about nutrition and anatomy. He later was certified as a personal trainer and started working in the field, and on his gravestone is even an etching of a man lifting weights.
After his mandatory military service, Dor traveled around South America. After his travels, Dor studied electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University and worked at a coffee shop in Modiin. He loved spending time at the beach and excelled at footvolley.
“Dor was always smiling with a lot of joy for life, a sense of humor and a good heart,” his mother, Vered, told a local site. He split his time between “workouts, work, studies, friends and family,” and had recently started a new relationship, she said.
“He always found time to meet with friends, even after a night shift at the coffee shop,” she added, noting that his larger friend group was known as the “Tirasim,” (corns), named after Dor’s golden hair, and they all had a corn on the cob tattoo. “He was very charismatic, a leader, and loved by everyone.”
Dor’s sister, Gal, wrote on an Instagram memorial page that “as the days pass the feeling of longing and pain stays.”
“I miss you so much, your loss is felt by me and all of us, if only I could hug you one more time,” she wrote. “If only I could tell you I love you one more time. If only you didn’t have to part from us… I know you’d want us to be happy, to laugh, to enjoy what we have, what’s here and now. That’s the thought that keeps me together and stops me from falling apart.”