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Master Sgt. Ran Gvili (Israel Police)
February 9, 2026, 3:32 pm
Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, 24: Motorcycle-loving cop ‘united the country’
Killed battling the Hamas invasion of southern Israel on October 7, his body kidnapped to Gaza and retrieved in January 2026
By ToI Staff
Avi Fraiman, the CEO of Kibbutz Alumim's dairy in southern Israel, January 13, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
February 4, 2026, 1:19 pm
Amid Finance Ministry dairy reform, besieged Gaza border farm’s fate is curdling, says CEO
Outgoing head Avi Fraiman, who has spent 43 years working at Kibbutz Alumim’s milk farm, says the government should target big food cartels rather than have a cow about the dairies
By Sue Surkes
Shira Gvili, sister of Israeli hostage Ran Gvili, whose remains were finally brought back to Israel on January 26, reacts by the casket during his funeral in the southern town of Meitar on January 28, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg / POOL / AFP)
January 28, 2026, 7:34 pm
Grieving family lays last hostage Ran Gvili to rest, closing chapter for anguished nation
‘All the laughter is gone,’ sister says in tearful eulogy as family tells mourners of pride in policeman killed in Oct. 7 attack; Herzog: Healing can now begin; PM attends funeral of a hostage for first time
By Jessica Steinberg
Talik Gvili, mother of the deceased hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili, December 10, 2025. Ran Gvili's body was located by the IDF and returned to Israel on January 26, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
January 26, 2026, 3:05 pm
Speaking days before his body was found, Ran Gvili’s mother said she trusts Israel to bring him home
Talik Gvili believes the US and Israeli governments are doing all they can to secure release of Ran’s body before Gaza ceasefire moves into second phase
By Jessica Steinberg
Supporters at a Friday gathering for their son Ran Gvili, the remaining hostage body in Gaza, near Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on January 9, 2026 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 9, 2026, 6:27 pm
Kibbutz Alumim members gather in Tel Aviv, call for return of hostage Ran Gvili’s body
Gvili’s father rejects regional council head’s apology for death of son, who came to kibbutz to fight on Oct. 7: ‘Rani went there to fight. He knew where he was going’
By Jessica Steinberg
Itzik and Talik Gvili, parents of deceased hostage Ran Gvili, on November 22, 2025, at a Hostages Forum rally. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages Forum)
November 29, 2025, 12:02 am
Father of Ran Gvili, one of two remaining hostages, to speak at possible final Tel Aviv rally
Hostages forum indicates Saturday event may be last as it narrows activities to support 2 families, says rallies don’t serve current situation of terror groups searching for bodies
By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
Police officer Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, confirmed on January 31, 2024, to have been killed by invading Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023, with his body abducted to Gaza. (Israel Police)
November 23, 2025, 5:52 am
‘We’re ready for him to come home,’ says sister of deceased hostage Ran Gvili
Shira Gvili says the wait for the body of her brother, a police officer and one of the final three slain hostages held in Gaza, feels interminable
By Jessica Steinberg
Family members mourn during the funeral ceremony of Bipin Joshi, a deceased Nepali agricultural student who was slain in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, in Kanchanpur, Nepal, October 21, 2025. (PRAKASH CHANDRA TIMILSENA / AFP)
October 22, 2025, 7:27 pm
‘A reminder of darkness’: Mourners in Nepal bid farewell to slain Gaza hostage Bipin Joshi
Two years after he was kidnapped from Israeli kibbutz, family of agricultural student holds traditional Hindu cremation ceremony after his body was flown home
By ToI Staff
A member of the Nepalese army pays his respects to Bipin Joshi, a Nepali man who was taken hostage by Hamas, during a memorial procession at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, October 20, 2025. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
October 20, 2025, 5:38 pm
‘A son of Nepal’: Body of Bipin Joshi, slain in Gaza captivity, finally arrives home
‘Bipin’s courage and bravery are a matter of pride for every Nepali,’ prime minister says on airport tarmac, two years after agricultural student was kidnapped from border kibbutz
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Mourners surround the coffin of slain hostage Bipin Joshi, before the repatriation of his body to Nepal, at Ben Gurion Airport, on October 19, 2025. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)
October 19, 2025, 2:02 pm
Slain hostage Bipin Joshi praised for October 7 heroism as his body flown to Nepal
Joshi, 23, deflected grenade in shelter, tried to save friends before he was abducted from Kibbutz Alumim; government’s hostage point man: ‘I’m sorry. It shouldn’t have ended this way’
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
A still image, cleared for publication by the family of Bipin Joshi, from a recording of him discovered in Gaza that shows him in the weeks after his abduction from Israel. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
October 8, 2025, 5:13 pm
Nepali hostage Bipin Joshi’s family releases video from shortly after October 7
Relatives of farming student, the only non-Israeli still held by Hamas, say footage is proof he is still alive, though they have not received a sign of life for him since Nov. 2023
By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
Meechai Ritthiphon (Courtesy)
September 10, 2025, 11:20 pm
Meechai Ritthiphon, 42: Thai farmer hoped to move to Canada
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Alumim on October 7
By ToI Staff
Jakkapan Diawthaisong (Courtesy)
July 16, 2025, 9:49 pm
Jakkapan Diawthaisong, 37: Thai agricultural worker, ex-soccer player
Murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in Kibbutz Alumim
By ToI Staff
Anan Phetkaew (Courtesy)
July 7, 2025, 10:14 pm
Anan Phetkaew, 39: Thai laborer who was the pillar of his family
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Alumim on October 7
By ToI Staff
Narayan Prasad Neupane (Courtesy)
April 8, 2025, 11:05 pm
Narayan Prasad Neupane, 26: Nepali hoped to bring Israeli hi-tech home
Murdered by Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Alumim on October 7
By ToI Staff
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