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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

bereaved families

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
A security volunteer yells at a protester outside the Ashdod military cemetery on May 13, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
May 13, 2024, 7:14 pm
‘I’m a Kahanist’: Police volunteer shouts at elderly protester on Memorial Day
Incident occurs when supporters of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and their opponents clash at Ashdod military cemetery
By Sam Sokol
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the military cemetery in Beersheba, April 25, 2023. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
May 2, 2024, 4:46 pm
Bereaved families irked by far-right ministers’ planned role in Memorial Day events
Government decisions seem calculated ‘to provoke, to ignite fires,’ says head of bereaved families’ organization; Kfar Saba mayor calls on Smotrich not to come to city
By Sam Sokol
Lihi Lapid (Vardi Kahana)
April 7, 2024, 6:43 pm
Author Lihi Lapid asks what happens when a mourning mother can’t remember her son
Novel ‘On Her Own’ marks a major milestone in the writer’s career, and paints a poignant portrait of Israel that provides much-needed insight to international readers at this time
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Girls from bereaved families celebrate their bat mitzvahs in a group event in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Rebecca Kowalsky)
March 12, 2024, 8:28 am
Dozens of bereaved girls gather for group bat mitzvah celebration in Jerusalem
New York-based family of Ruth Werthenschlag, 12, sponsors joint event for those who have lost immediate family members to terrorism, accidents, and illnesses
By Ariella Oldfield
Participants at a bereaved parents retreat at the Secret Forest retreat center in western Cyprus, on January 20, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
January 29, 2024, 9:07 am
In the Cyprus mountains, bereaved Israelis find solace during wartime
A group of parents whose sons were killed while fighting in the Israel-Hamas war travel to the rural Secret Forest retreat center for a weekend of healing
By Gavriel Fiske
Rabbi and actor Hagay Lober is staging a one-man play in memory of his son, Elisha Yehonatan Lober, a reserve duty soldier killed December 25, 2023, while fighting in Gaza (Courtesy)
January 25, 2024, 1:09 pm
A month after his son fell in battle, a father stages a one-man play about October 7
Hagay Lober, a rabbi and an actor, hopes to bring solace with show about the mourning process, by his Jerusalem’s Aspaklaria theater company
By Jessica Steinberg
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