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Fundraiser for Yarden Bibas surpasses its goal, reaches $1.6 million in some 24 hours
Yarden Bibas covering the coffin of his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir during the slain hostages' funeral near Kibbutz Nir Oz, February 26, 2025. (Eitan Uner/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
A fundraiser by the family of released hostage Yarden Bibas has surpassed its $1,371,086 goal within 24 hours of its launch, reaching more than $1.6 million.
The campaign is aimed at helping to fund Bibas’s rehabilitation and memorialize his wife Shiri and young sons Kfir and Ariel, who were abducted in the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, and murdered in captivity.
The funds, collected via the Lehosheet Yad (Lend a Hand) foundation, will assist with “professional support, mental health assistance and financial resources to gradually regain a sense of normalcy,” Yarden’s father Eli has written on the campaign’s English-language page.
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