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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 644

bereaved families

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during an official Memorial Day ceremony at the Ashdod Military Cemetery on May 13, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
April 28, 2025, 5:39 pm
Government reshuffles Memorial Day lineup to keep divisive ministers from the bereaved
Ben Gvir left off list altogether after two years of protests, but spokesman says he will be at police ceremony; overhaul architect Levin moved from Nahariya to settlement bloc
By ToI Staff
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a ceremony at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 28, 2025, 5:26 am
In call with bereaved father, Shin Bet head defends decision to hold off on resigning
In phone call following stormy High Court hearing earlier this month over government’s vote to fire him, Ronen Bar says he wants to resign, but must weigh timing responsibly
By ToI Staff
Freed hostage Agam Berger plays a violin that once belonged to a Jewish musician who was murdered in the Holocaust, March 8, 2025. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 11, 2025, 8:38 am
Ex-hostage Agam Berger will perform at Auschwitz during March of the Living
Former captives and their families, alongside relatives of current hostages and Oct. 7 victims, set to join 80 Holocaust survivors, marking 80 years since end of World War II
By Jessica Steinberg
Bereaved families, friends and soldiers at the site of the Supernova music festival massacre, in Re'im, near the Israel-Gaza border, May 13, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90/ File)
April 2, 2025, 8:17 pm
‘Lies’: Bereaved families lash out, shouting, as IDF presents probe into Nova massacre
Chaos erupts at Expo Tel Aviv as military presents investigation into Oct. 7 attack on rave — where 364 were killed and 40 abducted — to angry parents, who yell: ‘Where were you?’
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Bereaved families, hostages' families and survivors of the October 7 massacre react as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a 40-signatures debate in the Knesset, March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 3, 2025, 11:25 pm
Knesset guards violently prevent victims’ families from attending debate on Oct. 7 probe
Relatives of victims pushed, hit and dragged away, 3 need medical attention, before they are let into visitors’ gallery; Yarden Bibas urges PM to join him when he returns to kibbutz
By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman
The Day That Will Come. (Screenshot)
January 21, 2025, 2:52 am
Novel ‘newspaper’ offers hopeful post-Oct. 7 visions
In 50,000 issue print run, bereaved families and others pen articles featuring reports they’d like to see in Israel in six months’ time
By Sue Surkes
Protestors at Begin Gate in Tel Aviv on January 14, 2025, calling for the release of all the hostages and the end to the war (Credit Yoav Loeff)
January 15, 2025, 1:24 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 15: Day 467 – Hostage deal could be signed Wednesday or Thursday
Reporter Amy Spiro offers details of the proposal, which Foreign Minister Sa’ar calls gradual, not partial; reporter Sue Surkes reviews import changes and cave art
By Jessica Steinberg, Amy Spiro and Sue Surkes
Singer and actor Idan Amedi, who was injured as a reservist in Gaza, performs for the One Family Hanukkah camp of bereaved children on December 30, 2024. (Courtesy)
January 1, 2025, 6:11 pm
Singer Idan Amedi, injured in Gaza, performs for bereaved kids
‘Fauda’ actor and songwriter returns to stage for the first time since being wounded a year ago, sings at One Family Hanukkah camp
By Jessica Steinberg
Jonathan Shamriz, bereaved brother of hostage Alon Shamriz who was killed by mistake by the IDF in Gaza on December 15, 2023, speaks at the alternative Bereaved Families Ceremony on October 7, 2024 at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park (Courtesy)
October 8, 2024, 1:49 am
‘We will rise from the ruins’: A bereaved audience pays homage on Oct. 7 anniversary
Tearful and singing softly, 2,000 bereaved family members and hostage relatives attend alternative ceremony that brother of slain captive helped organize ‘so it wouldn’t be political’
By Jessica Steinberg
Orna Shimoni outside the Knesset, Sep. 20, 2024 (Screenshot taken from X in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 20, 2024, 3:11 pm
83-year-old bereaved mother starts hunger strike outside Knesset to demand hostage deal
Anti-war activist Orna Shimoni says she initially kept her decision secret from her children and has told them not to treat her if she falls ill
By ToI Staff
Myra Sack and Matt Goldstein holding Havi Lev Goldstein. (Courtesy)
August 2, 2024, 4:22 pm
Their daughter’s death from Tay-Sachs at age 2 transformed this family’s view of grief
In her new memoir, ‘Fifty-Seven Fridays,’ Myra Sack chronicles how she and her husband continue to navigate the loss of their child, carrying her with them as they move forward
By Cathryn J. Prince
Thousands attend a peace conference at Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv, July 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 2, 2024, 8:52 am
At Tel Aviv confab, Israel’s embattled peace camp seeks to revive itself post-Oct. 7
Bringing together Jewish and Arab activists under slogan ‘only peace can bring security,’ event features historian Yuval Noah Harari and Hadash chair Ayman Odeh as keynote speakers
By Charlie Summers
Bass player Barak Mori will perform a piece he composed for his nephew, Omri Ben Shachar, killed in action in Gaza in December 2023. (Courtesy)
June 18, 2024, 6:39 pm
Bassist Barak Mori to play blue notes at Jerusalem Jazz in memory of fallen nephew
After paratrooper Omri Ben Shachar was killed in battle in Gaza, his musician uncle wrote a piece in his memory
By Jessica Steinberg
Gadi and Reuma Kedem, who lost several of their family members during the October 7 massacre, arrive to file a complaint at a police station after being attacked during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, May 19, 2024. (Flash90)
May 23, 2024, 11:47 pm
Police charge right-wing activists with assaulting bereaved father at hostage rally
Indictment says Shimon Biton and Uri Harush beat and wounded Gadi Kedem, who lost his daughter and her family on October 7
By ToI Staff
Filmmaker, influencer and widower Rob Mor in Israel while making a film about grief, in April 2024 (Courtesy)
May 20, 2024, 1:46 am
Jewish American widower channels post-Oct. 7 Israeli grief in new film
Influencer and producer Rob Mor reflects on loss, his Judaism and how to process death
By Jessica Steinberg
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