Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
Mourners attend the funeral of 49-year-old Doris Yahbas, who was killed in a terror attack in Beersheba, at a cemetery in Moshav Gilat, March 23, 2022. (Flash90)
The husband of Doris Yahbas, who was killed in yesterday’s terror attack in Beersheba, fulfills a Jewish tradition of asking for forgiveness from a person as they are buried.
“Doris, my dear wife, mother of my children, who raised them with me, we ask you for forgiveness, we will never forget you all of our lives,” Yahbas’s husband says during the funeral in the town of Gilat.
“You were the mainstay and the central link of the whole family,” he says.
The terrorist, he says, “cut you away from us. You will always be with us, in our heart and soul. I promise to look after the children as you looked after them.”
“I love you and the children love you,” he says. “I am sorry, Doris.”
“How will we survive without you, my dear sister” laments Yahbas’s sibling, Dina Ozen. “I promise to look after the children.”
Doris Yahbas (Courtesy the Yahbas family)
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