Ido Peretz, 22: Navy veteran with ‘the most pure heart in the world’
Murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7
Ido Peretz, 22, from Ramat Gan, was murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7.
Ido attended the rave with his good friend, Niv Tel Zur. When the rocket fire began, they both left via car, and were heading to the nearby Moshav Mivtahim to hole up with a family friend who invited them over to seek shelter.
At 7:13 a.m., they got to the junction just outside Mivtahim and the neighboring Yesha and they were shot dead there by Hamas terrorists who were lying in wait along the highway. After two days, their car was located and their bodies were removed and identified.
Ido was buried in Tel Aviv on October 10. He is survived by his parents, Osnat and Eran, his older brother, Eden, and his girlfriend, Bar.
Born and raised in Ramat Gan, he attended local schools, including the well-known Blich High School. He was very close to his older brother, Eden, and he met his girlfriend Bar when they were just 15, spending 8 years of their lives together up until he was killed. Ido loved to play soccer and was also a devoted fan of the Maccabi Tel Aviv team, according to a state eulogy.
After graduating high school, Ido enlisted in the military, serving for three years in the Navy aboard the INS Lahav corvette warship. After his release, he traveled to the Sinai, Europe, the US and Mexico, before returning to Israel and started to work in security while he planned out his future.
His older brother, Eden, wrote on Instagram about how “when I was little I asked Mom and Dad to bring me a brother as a present and then you were born.”
“I would tell people that Ido is my little brother but he’s not really little, he’s taller than me, and you would look at me from above with appreciative eyes and I would feel like the little one next to you,” he added. “You have the best, most beautiful and pure heart in the world… You couldn’t even tell the smallest lie, you always told us exactly how things were and only the truth.”
Eden said that Ido was “loved like crazy everywhere you went, and your friends are a group of mensches and they are all my little brothers now.”
Speaking on Channel 13 news, his mother, Osnat, said Ido “was a child of love, a child of generosity, who was always ready to help, always first to go out and help and volunteer. The boy went to a festival of peace. He went to set up an exhibition of drawings for his friend [ahead of the festival], and he never came back from a festival of peace. This is a kid who was a deputy in the Navy on a missile boat, he took part in operations in Israel and abroad, and he didn’t come back from a festival.”
His girlfriend, Bar Lanyado, wrote on Instagram thanking Ido “for you, for eight years during which we grew together and learned together what life was.”
“What didn’t we go through together — high school, the army, the big trip abroad. This relationship wasn’t supposed to end this way, we were supposed to continue together forever, and we always knew it,” she added. “But this relationship didn’t really end, my heart will always be yours and you will always be a huge part of it… I was privileged to have the best thing in the world. You were my angel and now you’re my guardian angel in the sky.”
