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Shiri Bibas

The 'footprints' of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas in the center of a new memorial at Kibbutz Tzeelim, where Yarden Bibas grew up. The mother and two young boys were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, and subsequently murdered in captivity. (Talia Ben Harush)
November 18, 2025, 2:15 pm
Memorial to Shiri Bibas and her sons erected at kibbutz where husband Yarden grew up
Zvika Pasternak’s somber work comprises footprints surrounded by circles; ‘Footprints usually represent a route,’ says the artist. ‘Here, they are trapped, frozen in time’
By Sue Surkes
Shiri Bibas, Kfir Bibas and Ariel Bibas (Courtesy)
September 3, 2025, 11:23 pm
Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, 32, 4 & 1: Devoted mom to redheaded sons
Kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and slain in captivity, their bodies returned to Israel in February 2025
By ToI Staff
Judih Weinstein Haggai and Gadi Haggai (Courtesy)
June 5, 2025, 2:32 pm
IDF recovers bodies of slain hostages Gadi Haggai, Judih Weinstein in Gaza operation
Dual US citizens were held in Khan Younis by Hamas-allied terror group that also kidnapped, murdered Bibas family; official says Shin Bet grilling of Gazan detainee led IDF to bodies
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
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
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 covering the coffin of his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir during the slain hostages' funeral near Kibbutz Nir Oz, February 26, 2025. (Eitan Uner/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
February 26, 2025, 5:02 pm
Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas buried in a single casket: ‘They will remain together’
Mother and two young sons, murdered while held hostage by Gaza terrorists, laid to rest; ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you all,’ says Yarden Bibas; family laments their lost future together
By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
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’
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