A woman holds a sign saying 'Sorry, Idan' at the funeral procession for slain hostage Idan Shtivi in Rishon Lezion on September 1, 2025 (Dafna Yosha/pro-democracy protest groups)
The funeral procession begins for slain hostage Idan Shtivi, whose body was brought back from Gaza in a military operation on Friday.
People line the streets of the route with Israeli flags and signs apologizing to Shtivi and calling for all of the hostages to be brought home.
Shivti will be buried in Kfar Ma’as at 4 p.m.
Ilan Weiss, whose body was also brought back on Friday, will be buried at 5 p.m. in Kibbutz Be’eri.
Shtivi, 28, was murdered at the Nova music festival during the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in southern Israel.
Weiss, 56, was killed on the morning of October 7, 2023, while defending Kibbutz Be’eri from Hamas-led terrorists as a member of his community’s emergency response team. His wife Shiri and daughter Noga were also taken hostage and later freed during a weeklong truce and hostage release deal in November 2023.
Ilan Weiss (L) and Idan Shtivi (R) in undated photographs (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
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