Welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. I'm Amanda Borschell Dan here with our Those We Have Lost project manager, Amy Spiro.

Amy, thank you so much for joining me today as we mark two years to the October 7, 2023, Hamas incursion into southern Israel, which saw the murder of 1,200, 250 taken hostage into

Gaza. Thank you for joining me in our Jerusalem office.

Thank you for having me.

This episode, we're going to focus on eight immigrants to Israel who lost their lives

at the very beginning of the war.

We are also going to discuss the stats of the project, this ongoing project that Amy has spearheaded.

And we're going to talk about these eight immigrants to Israel.

So Amy, start out by telling us who are these immigrants and why did you choose them?

Yeah, so as I said, I chose eight people and I

chose them from eight different countries. So we're going to talk today about people who immigrated

to Israel from Ethiopia, Russia, Argentina, France, the U.S., the UK, Ukraine, and Iran. And I, you know,

wanted to have that wide spectrum of people because obviously, you know,

Israel is made up of immigrants from all over. Those who came 70 years ago and those who came

one, you know, one of the people I'm going to speak about came two years before he was killed.

And so that, you know, our listeners and our readers, obviously a lot of them are immigrants and

many of them

know people who immigrating to Israel, and I thought that this would be a unique way to look at

the project in a more narrow focus. Okay, so looking more broadly at the project, how many people

have we covered so far? So we're recording this a little bit in advance. By the time it does go out, we should have around 1,150 posts. But some of them you will see are, you know, couples or siblings or entire families.

Exactly, entire families. So we're at this point. we're right around 1,250 people who we've

written about. The vast majority of them killed on October 7th. A small number of those are

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