Widow of Yossi Sharabi: ‘In what world should daughters have to bury their father so early?’

Nira Sharabi, the widow of slain hostage Yossi Sharabi, says at his funeral: “In what world should daughters have to bury their father so early? In what world should a mother have to bury her son? In what world should a woman have to bury the love of her life when there was still so much left to do?”

Sharabi says that when she met Yossi, “I remember not being able to understand how someone could have such a good heart. Over the years, as I got to know you more and more, I realized there were no hidden sides to you — only more and more of that same goodness. It wasn’t a cliché; it was the real thing.

“The plans we made together will never happen,” she says. “I go to sleep alone. I wake up alone. I reach for your warm hands that used to hold me, that used to shield all of us from the world… I ask myself — how does one fill this void? How do I gather myself again?”

She adds, “I look at our daughters, and I see you in them. In each one of them, you appear in a different way, and together they complete you — the one I miss so deeply.”

״שנתיים שאני לא נושמת. שנתיים שאני זועקת בתוך הלב פנימה ושואלת "למה?".
כואבת אותך. כאב של מלאכים.״

כשהיא מוקפת בשלוש בנותיה ובכל בני משפחתה המורחבת, עמדה נירה שרעבי ונפרדה מבעלה יוסי שרעבי ז״ל:

״כשהגעת מייד ידעתי – זה זה. זה אתה. נועדנו זה לזו.

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— מטה המשפחות להחזרת החטופים והנעדרים (@BringThemHome23) October 27, 2025