Two weeks after his body was returned to Israel, and close to two years after he was killed in Hamas captivity, Yossi Sharabi is slated to be laid to rest in Kibbutz Be’eri tomorrow.
The funeral procession for Sharabi, who was 53 when he was killed in an IDF airstrike in Gaza in January 2024, will set off at 10:45 a.m. from Rishon Lezion, passing through Yavne and Yad Mordechai before the Sha’ar Hanegev Junction and then the Sa’ad Junction, ending up in Be’eri around 12:45 p.m.
The Sharabi family invites members of the public to stand along the funeral route with Israeli flags. President Isaac Herzog is slated to attend the ceremony and eulogize Sharabi.
Yossi was kidnapped from his home on October 7 along with his daughter’s boyfriend, Ofir Engel and a neighbor, Amit Shani, who were both freed in November 2023. His brother, Eli Sharabi, was kidnapped separately and was released in February 2025. Eli’s wife and two daughters were murdered in the Hamas attack, as was Yossi’s nephew on his wife’s side, Idan Herman.
Yossi’s body was finally returned to Israel on October 13.
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