Long and sorrowful days awaited the families of friends Ziv Frenkel and Lin Dafni, both 22, who yearned for any piece of information regarding their fate. However, the grim news arrived over the weekend: the bodies of the two close friends were identified, murdered by Hamas terrorists at the music festival near Re’im.The two had gone to the ‘Nova’ party in the Gaza Envelope last Friday, along with their friend Moriah Reviv, 23, from Kiryat Motzkin, who was also killed by Hamas terrorists. For many days they were considered missing. On Saturday morning, they managed to report to their families about the missile attack and the terrorists, but contact was cut off with them since.
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A year after October 2023, I’m reading about Ziv’s assassination in a French translation of Lee Yaron’s book 07 Octobre. I‘m 78, my grandfather‘s second wife was a Frenkel, she managed to get out off Germany in 1938, escaping to Vienna and from there to the US. She had a son who eventually moved to Israel. It touches me that Ziv may be someone like a distant relative of mine, which of course I can‘t be sure of. Yet it makes my mourning for all the victims of October 7 deeper and more personal. May they all be blessed.
This evening the news said Tsahal finally got Sinwar. Yesh elohim.