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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

Ariel Bibas

Shiri Bibas (left) and her sons Ariel, 4, (top-right) and baby Kfir, who were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 and murdered in captivity. (Courtesy/Foreign Ministry)
April 5, 2025, 12:23 am
IDF says it killed terrorist who led Bibas abduction, was likely involved in their murders
Military says it also killed Hamas propagandist who was involved in hostage videos and official who funneled cash to terror group’s military wing; MSF: Worker killed in Gaza airstrike
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Ariel Bibas and the butterfly named after him. (avstraliavasin via iStock/Courtesy)
April 4, 2025, 3:20 pm
Butterfly renamed in honor of murdered hostage Ariel Bibas
Orange Jerusalem renamed Orange Ariel, evoking an alternate biblical name for the capital and the vivid color of the slain 4-year-old’s hair
By Michael Horovitz
A month after Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were laid to rest in Israel, the gravestone for the three slain hostages was unveiled at a family ceremony on March 27, 2025, at the Tsohar cemetery near Kibbutz Nir Oz. They were abducted from their kibbutz on October 7, 2023 by Hamas-led terrorists, and later brutally murdered in Gaza by their captors. (Israel Katorza, via Assaf Pozailov, Kann / X)
March 27, 2025, 8:35 pm
‘We love you the most’: Orange-tinted Bibas family gravestone unveiled
Headstone erected one month after funeral above shared casket recalls Shiri as ‘funny and sensitive,’ Ariel as ‘a child of light and love’ and Kfir for ‘loving hugs and cuddles’
By ToI Staff
Yarden Bibas carries flowers at the funeral of his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir, near Kibbutz Nir Oz, February 26, 2025. (Eitan Uner/ Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
February 26, 2025, 5:07 pm
Ballads from Bibas family soundtrack play at funeral of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir
Songs from American heavy metal and hard rock bands resonate at southern cemetery
By Jessica Steinberg
Yarden Bibas eulogizes his wife Shiri and two young sons Kfir and Ariel, at Tsoher Regional Cemetery on February 26, 2025 (Screen grab/GPO)
February 26, 2025, 4:54 pm
What Israel’s leaders, Donald Trump, and the rest of the free world owe Yarden Bibas
Heartbroken, he apologized for failing to protect his wife and two small sons from Hamas; But it’s we, of course, who owe him the apology and who must root out the death cult Islamist ideology
By David Horovitz
Yarden Bibas (R) with his sister Ofri as he eulogizes his wife Shiri and two young sons Kfir and Ariel, at Tsoher Regional Cemetery on February 26, 2025 (Screen grab/YouTube)
February 26, 2025, 1:53 pm
‘I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you all’: Yarden Bibas’s eulogy for wife Shiri, sons Ariel and Kfir
His family murdered in Gaza, freed hostage says he misses nibbling on baby Kfir, hopes there are butterflies in heaven for Ariel; asks slain wife: ‘Guard me so I don’t sink into darkness’
Yoav Avital (right) and the late Ariel Bibas, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. (Spokeswoman, Kibbutz Nir Oz)
February 24, 2025, 10:35 am
‘He isn’t dead, he’s in his room’: Ariel Bibas’s 5-year-old friend struggles with his loss
Yoav Avital, who grew up with Ariel, asked to invent a potion that could bring his friend back, dictated a letter imagining Ariel ‘flying over Gaza’ to ‘fight the bad guys with a bow and arrow’
By Sue Surkes
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