Day 365 - Spotlight on ToI’s Those We Have Lost memorial project
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
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🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Those We Have Lost project coordinator Amy Spiro joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's episode.
Today, we’re dedicating the daily podcast’s time to stories of civilians and soldiers who have fallen since October 7. We’ve each chosen 9 individuals to focus on and we’ll explain why they moved us.
We also hear updates from Spiro on how many of the over 1,600 individuals who were killed on or after October 7 during this war with Hamas and Hezbollah that we have been able to write memorials for.
For news updates, please check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing live blog.
Discussed articles include:
Cpt. Alina Pravosudova, 23: ‘Gingit’ loved ballet, volunteered for MDA
Staff Sgt. Omri Peretz, 20: Squad commander ‘surrounded by friends’
Sujith Nissanka, 48: Dedicated Sri Lankan carer slain with his patient
Mayana and Noah Hershkovitz, 65 & 68: Couple shared a love of art
Sivan Shaarbany, 21: Curly-haired partygoer who loved salt & pepper
Alon Toledano, 54: Sensitive man who aimed to help others
Ilan Fiorentino, 38: Kibbutz security chief who was a ‘200% dad’
Ronen Daichman, 49: Physics teacher was ‘the coolest guy in the school’
Chief Supt. Martin Kyzmickas, 46: Cop who had ‘warrior blood’
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IMAGE: Family and friends of Israeli soldier Captain Eitan Itzhak Oster attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on October 2, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:08.5 | Today is Saturday, October 5th, day 365 of the war with Hamas. |
| 0:14.4 | Amanda Borchelle, Dan, here in our Jerusalem offices with editor Amy Spiro. |
| 0:19.1 | Amy, thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:23.2 | Thank you for having me. We are going to discuss several individuals from our Those We Have Lost project. Amy, as ever, I would like you to |
| 0:30.2 | explain a little bit about this project and tell us what the Those we have lost project is. |
| 0:36.5 | So over the past year, we have been working every day essentially |
| 0:41.3 | to tell the stories of the people who were killed on since October 7th because it was such an |
| 0:47.4 | enormous number, really, you know, a number that Israel's never faced losing in one day in such a |
| 0:52.8 | concentrated period. It was clear that the people and the |
| 0:56.4 | stories and the individuals were going to be lost in this, you know, huge amount of news. So we've |
| 1:01.8 | been essentially working to just tell people who they are, who they were, how they died and how |
| 1:07.8 | they lived and who's mourning them. |
| 1:13.8 | So we've been doing that for a year. |
| 1:16.3 | We are still working on it. |
| 1:17.9 | So as of this recording, |
| 1:19.5 | which is a little bit in advance, |
| 1:20.4 | you know, |
| 1:24.1 | we're coming up essentially on publishing 800 posts and those represent around 900 people who've been killed. |
| 1:28.7 | Amy, you remember, of course, October 7th, nobody will forget that day. |
| 1:32.8 | And I remember towards the afternoon, we were trying to ascertain how many people had |
| 1:38.4 | been murdered. |
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