Shiran Ganon, 38: Mom of three with ‘the perfect dimples’
Murdered at the Supernova music festival on October 7
Shiran Ganon, 38, from Bat Yam, was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7.
She attended the rave with her husband, Nati, who was shot and seriously wounded but managed to survive. Shiran was considered missing for close to a week until her body was found. She was buried in Holon on October 15.
Shiran is survived by her husband, Nati, their three children, Ilay, 15, Ori, 11 and Mai, 8, as well as her father, Betzalel, and her siblings.
Nati told the Kan public broadcaster that they tried to flee the festival in their car, which got stuck, and they jumped in another vehicle, which came under gunfire. Nati was shot in the leg, and so was Shiran, he recalled.
They tried to jump out of the car, but Nati was unable to run, and told Shiran to keep going. That was the last time he saw her. He was rescued after four hours with gunshot wounds to his knee and back, and was still hospitalized as of mid-January.
Their daughter Mai told Kan that Shiran was “the best mom in the world.”
Nati told the Mako news site that “she was a wonderful person, beloved by all, good hearted, an incredible mother and wife.” He said she worked for the Israel Post office and would also help out at his hair salon from time to time.
Her friend Reut Beilin recalled on Facebook “how you would make us all laugh until we were peeing in our pants, how you would always drag us to the tastiest places, you would always knew to hug us when it was needed, to give a slap and a shake when it was needed — but most of all to smile with those bright teeth of yours and those perfect dimples of yours! Shirani, my heart is crying.”
Nati’s aunt, Lior Barnes, wrote that “anyone who knew you knew what an enormous heart you had, how much love you could fit inside it and still there was so much more room. Our family is shattered, we feel like we’re living in a nightmare… Watch over Nati and the kids from above and we will watch over them down here.”
“She left behind an enormous hole,” Nati told Kan. “I miss going on a walk with her, I miss sitting with her with a cup of coffee, I miss sitting with her in a restaurant — everything.”
