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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Yarden Bibas

From left to right: Freed hostages Aviva Siegel, Keith Siegel, Yarden Bibas, Iair Horn, Yocheved Lifshitz and Sasha Troufanov attend a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 18, 2025, 11:19 pm
‘They’re not just posters, they’re people’: Freed hostages urge deal to save those left behind
Families fear resumed war could be fatal for loved ones; Sasha Troufanov asks ‘why are we abandoning them’; Yarden Bibas say he’s ‘petrified’ for his friends; Noa Argamani pleads to save every soul
By Jessica Steinberg and Noam Lehmann
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 5, 2025, 4:44 pm
Why Netanyahu must accept Yarden Bibas’s noble invitation, and also back state probe of Oct. 7
‘If we do not look the disaster in the eye, we will not be able to recover,’ the bereaved father and husband wrote, urging the PM to join him when he returns to his kibbutz home
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)
March 5, 2025, 4:40 pm
Yarden Bibas’s letter to Netanyahu calling for state inquiry, asking PM to join him at kibbutz
In letter read out in Knesset, freed hostage who lost wife and kids asks PM to accompany him when he first returns to his home, laments ‘so few politicians’ have taken responsibility
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)
March 2, 2025, 11:27 pm
Yarden Bibas joins hundreds of families of Oct. 7 victims demanding state inquiry
1,500 survivors of captivity, families of hostages have signed on to ‘October Committee’ calling for highest-level independent probe of failures surrounding Hamas attack
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’
David Cunio, right, with his twin brother, Eitan Cunio in footage for the film 'Letter to David,' being screened at the February 2025 Berlinale and made by filmmaker Tom Shoval after David Cunio was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
February 23, 2025, 11:47 am
In Berlin, Israeli director screens homage to hostage David Cunio and his family
Filmmaker Tom Shoval filmed a ‘kind of letter’ to the onetime actor — who starred in his 2013 film ‘Youth’ — and his family and friends, including Yarden and Shiri Bibas
By Jessica Steinberg
Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas (Hostages Families Forum)
February 22, 2025, 2:07 pm
New York, Rio de Janeiro landmarks lit orange to honor murdered Bibas family
New York governor orders 14 state sites to be illuminated in color that symbolized fight to free the redheaded children; Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil also lit up
By Luke Tress
This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Shiri Bibas, who was abducted and taken to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages Family Forum via AP)
February 22, 2025, 5:39 am
Shiri Bibas’s body returned to Israel; officials assess she was ‘brutally’ murdered with sons in Gaza
Announcement comes after Hamas finally delivers body overnight, a day after her 2 young sons were determined to have been murdered in cold blood by terrorists in Strip
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Shiri Bibas (Courtesy)
February 21, 2025, 5:37 pm
After Hamas sends wrong body, Bibas family says priority is getting Shiri back, not revenge
Sister-in-law of Shiri Bibas also accuses Netanyahu of abandoning the family in captivity; families of slain hostages ask that their bodies lie in state at Knesset
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators protest in Tel Aviv, for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, on February 10, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
February 11, 2025, 12:00 am
Protesters block Tel Aviv highway, demanding Israel ‘not endanger’ hostage deal
Yarden Bibas’s sister says he ‘holds onto hope’ he’ll be reunited with family; Ofer Calderon says conditions of his captivity worsened, became ‘brutal’ after November 2023 truce
By ToI Staff and Noam Lehmann
Yarden Bibas, flanked by his sister Ofri and father Eli, is seen on an IDF helicopter on his way to a hospital in central Israel on February 1, 2025, after his release from Hamas captivity. In his message on the whiteboard, he thanked all of Israel for its support. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 7, 2025, 9:45 pm
Yarden Bibas to PM: ‘Bring my family back. Bring my friends back. Bring everyone home’
In first statement since release, Bibas thanks Israelis who fought for him and his family, says: ‘My light is still there, and as long as they’re there, everything here is dark’
By ToI Staff
Family members of released hostage Yarden Bibas and hostages Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas hold a press conference at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on February 3, 2025. (From left) Eli Bibas, Ofri Bibas Levy, Dana Silberman Sitton, Jimmy Miller. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 4, 2025, 12:58 am
Family of freed hostage Yarden Bibas: He asks about wife and sons, we have no answers
‘Where are Shiri and the children? We won’t accept this uncertainty any longer,’ says Shiri’s sister; Keith Siegel’s daughter says he was uplifted by rallies, dismayed by discord
By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
Israelis protest for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv on February 1, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 3, 2025, 1:47 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 3: Day 486 – Sadism, cages, starvation: Released hostages speak
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren on US envoy Steve Witkoff’s take-charge attitude ahead of a crucial meeting with PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and released hostage testimonies
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Biranit Goren
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