Missing:
Dror Or
Age: 50
In Hopeful Solitude, We Await Your Return. Taken from us on October 7, 2023, you remain in our hearts, thoughts, and prayers. May courage guide your way back to the embrace of your loved ones.
Yonat Or, 50, her husband, Dror, also 50, and two of their three children, Noam, 15 and Alma, 13, are also missing after the attack on the Be’eri kibbutz. “Should I cry because they are dead already?” asked Yonat’s brother, Ahal Besorai. “Should I be happy because maybe they are captured but still alive? I pray to God every day that she will be found alive with her family and we can all be reunited.”
Source: The Guardian
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Close to seven months after October 7, Kibbutz Be’eri announced that resident Dror Or was murdered during the Hamas-led terror onslaught and that his body was being held in Gaza. He had been designated as a hostage until May 2024.
Such announcements typically come after the IDF obtains additional forensics leading to the determination of a hostage’s death. Or, 49, was previously believed to have been taken hostage alive, as were two of his children, Noam, 17 and Alma, 13, by Hamas terrorists who attacked their home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7.
The family was forced out of their safe room as terrorists set the house on fire. A neighbor saw the terrorists grabbing and taking members of the family hostage. Days later, the body of Yonat Or, Dror’s wife and mother of their three children, was found. 17-year-old Noam and 13-year-old Alma Or were released on November 25 as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar and the United States between Hamas and Israel.
Noam and Alma’s older brother, Yahli, and their dog, Nella, survived. Yahli Or is volunteering in a year of national service in the north, and wasn’t home on October 7. Dror Or was a chef and cheesemaker in the Be’eri Dairy, an award-winning artisanal cheese-making operation, founded in 1991 at the kibbutz. His wife Yonat Or, was also an entrepreneur who created Ayuna, her own carpentry and furniture line in Be’eri.
Source: The Times of Israel
Source: The Guardian
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Close to seven months after October 7, Kibbutz Be’eri announced that resident Dror Or was murdered during the Hamas-led terror onslaught and that his body was being held in Gaza. He had been designated as a hostage until May 2024.
Such announcements typically come after the IDF obtains additional forensics leading to the determination of a hostage’s death. Or, 49, was previously believed to have been taken hostage alive, as were two of his children, Noam, 17 and Alma, 13, by Hamas terrorists who attacked their home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7.
The family was forced out of their safe room as terrorists set the house on fire. A neighbor saw the terrorists grabbing and taking members of the family hostage. Days later, the body of Yonat Or, Dror’s wife and mother of their three children, was found. 17-year-old Noam and 13-year-old Alma Or were released on November 25 as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar and the United States between Hamas and Israel.
Noam and Alma’s older brother, Yahli, and their dog, Nella, survived. Yahli Or is volunteering in a year of national service in the north, and wasn’t home on October 7. Dror Or was a chef and cheesemaker in the Be’eri Dairy, an award-winning artisanal cheese-making operation, founded in 1991 at the kibbutz. His wife Yonat Or, was also an entrepreneur who created Ayuna, her own carpentry and furniture line in Be’eri.
Source: The Times of Israel
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