At a ceremony at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv ahead of his funeral procession, family members of slain hostage Tsahi Idan ask to be forgiven for not being able to save him.
“Our government made very difficult decisions with unbearable consequences,” says Noam, Tsahi’s sister, during the ceremony. “I’m sorry, from all of us, that you came back in a coffin, and not on your feet, as you left.”
Noam says that in captivity, Tsahi endured “a situation that even the devil himself couldn’t write.”
She says that the country “must bring back all of the hostages as quickly as possible,” calling it the “most important struggle we have.”
After the Bloomfield ceremony, Tsahi’s coffin will proceed through several locations in central Israel before he will be buried in Kibbutz Einat next to his daughter, Maayan, who was murdered by Hamas on October 7 in front of him.
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