At the funeral for Shiri Bibas and Children, an Israeli relief of pain
The people of Israel embraced them on their last trip, emerging in multitude along the funeral course for a family that had become emblematic of the country's trauma after 7 October 2023, attack.Shiri Bibas and his two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were kidnapped during the attack led by Hamas to the southern Israel, brought to Gaza and killed in captivity, according to the Israeli authorities. On Wednesday, in the midst of a national outburst of solidarity and pain, they were buried under a blue sky, not far from the border community where they had lived and from which they were seized.Through 16 months of fear and uncertainty about their destinies, the Bibas had become a symbol for many Israelis, both from the tragedy that meant that their country that day in October, when about 1,200 ...