Zohar family

The 13-year-old who was orphaned

Zohar family

Zohar family - Yaniv and Yasmin, and daughters Keshet (20) and Tchelet (18), were at the safe room. About six hours after the start of the attack, the terrorists broke into their home and murdered all of them. Their son, Ariel (13) was saved earlier by the Kibbutz Ravshatz, Ilan Fiorentino. His grandfather, Chaim Livne (87), was also murdered.

Zohar family

The 13-year-old who was orphaned

Zohar family

Minute by Minute Circle
06:29
~06:33
~07:00
~08:30
10:30
~10:33
~10:40
~12:00
12:34
~13:00
18:00
22:30

The sequence of events

Minute by Minute

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06:29

Yaniv enters the safe room with his family

~06:33

Kibbutz Ravshatz rescues son Ariel

~07:00

Terrorists infiltrate the Kibbutz

~08:30

Yaniv tries to catch up on what's happening outside

10:30

Terrorists infiltrate the Zohar family home

~10:33

Ysmin tries to call the security squad

~10:40

Terrorists leave the family home

~12:00

Yasmin: “The terrorists are back”

12:34

Yaniv's Last Message

~13:00

Terrorists kill the family members

18:00

Ariel gets in touch with family

22:30

Ariel is evicted from the kibbutz

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The Zohar family enters the safe room. Yaniv's manager in “Israel Hayom” newspaper writes him that he should prepare to take pictures after the barrage of missiles ends

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Yaniv corresponded with his manager at Israel Hayom, Ami Shuman
Ami
Good morning, get ready...
06:32 07/10/2023
Ami
Are you looking after yourself?
07:49 07/10/2023
Yaniv
thanks
07:50 07/10/2023
Yaniv
in the safe room with the kids
07:50 07/10/2023
Ami
We'll talk later when it's calmer
07:51 07/10/2023
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Yasmin calls Ravshatz Ilan Fiorentino and informs him that her son Ariel has gone jogging in the Kibbutz. Ilan leaves his family, rescues him from the line of fire and drives him to his house, where he asks his wife Sharon to guard him along with the girls in the safe room. He saves his life and returns to fight the terrorists

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About half an hour after the start of the barrage at the Gaza Envelope, and after battles with the IDF forces in the Nahal Oz post, several squads of terrorists infiltrate the Kibbutz and begin to break into the houses

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In an attempt to recruit help, Yaniv constantly corresponds with his friend Itay Levi, who was a fighter in the Commando unit Duvdevan. He also sends a message to the head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, Ophir Liebstein: “Ophir, talk to me, what's going on, I'll send an update and warn the reporters”. He didn't know Ophir had already been murdered. He also tries to call his friend, Ynet photographer Roy Idan. Roy still sends him the video in which he documented the infiltration of Hamas parachuters into Kfar Aza and then stops replying. Yaniv did not know that he, too, had already been murdered that morning

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Yaniv
in the safe room 👍🏼
09:30 07/10/2023
Itay
09:44 07/10/2023
Itay
Bro what's up? I'm getting reports that Nahal Oz and Beeri are being taken over by terrorists and there's no army?
11:48 07/10/2023
Itay
What's happening???
11:48 07/10/2023
Itay
Tell me it's not real
11:49 07/10/2023
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Terrorists infiltrate the family home. Daughter Keshet updates her aunt, Ayelet Cohen-Zohar, that her father asked that phones be shut off. At the same time, Yasmin sends a calming message to her mother in which she does not tell about the infiltration of the terrorists, telling her that everything is fine. Yaniv also does not share that the terrorists infiltrated their home, writing to his colleague Ami Shuman: “In the safe room, there is an exchange of fire”

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Yaniv corresponded with his manager at Israel Hayom, Ami Shomun
Ami
Just let me know that you're okay
10:10 07/10/2023
Yaniv
in the safe room
10:10 07/10/2023
Yaniv
There is an exchange of fire
10:10 07/10/2023
Ami
Keep me up to date
10:10 07/10/2023
Yaniv
👌🏻
10:11 07/10/2023
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Yasmin sends a message to the Ravshatz Ilan Fiorentino, who was killed in battle with the terrorists a short time earlier. When he doesn't answer, she writes to his deputy, Nissan de Kallo: “We have terrorists inside the house”

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Yasmin updates the deputy Ravshatz, De Kallo: “The terrorists left, it is more quiet”

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The terrorists return to the family home. Yasmin keeps constantly updating the deputy Ravshatz and writes to him: “The terrorists are back”

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The Sukkah decorations are still hanging: the courtyard of the Zohar family's home
The Sukkah decorations are still hanging: the courtyard of the Zohar family's home
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The Sukkah decorations are still hanging: the courtyard of the Zohar family's home
The Sukkah decorations are still hanging: the courtyard of the Zohar family's home
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Yaniv sends a worried message to his friend Itay Levy asking him to send troops to them urgently because the terrorists are back at home. It was the last signal of life from him

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Yaniv's correspondence with his good friend and colleague, Itay Levi
Yaniv
Bro, do something, terrorists came in Talk to the commando duvdevan unit
12:34 07/10/2023
Yaniv
Urgent I'm closing
12:34 07/10/2023
Itay
Where??! send your location
12:56 07/10/2023
Itay
Incoming forces
13:08 07/10/2023
Itay
be quiet, closed door
13:10 07/10/2023
Itay
I called everyone I know. Officers, owners of security companies, Shin Bet, police They say the forces are there I wanted to come to you We can't find weapons.
14:16 07/10/2023
Itay
Bro please write me I'm crying dead scared that something happened to you
15:50 07/10/2023
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After a struggle with Yaniv over the safe room door handle, the terrorists manage to break through the door and shoot dead Yaniv, Yasmin and the girls Keshet and Tchelet

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Ami Shomun, Yaniv's manager at Israel Hayom, tries to get a sign of life from him - no answer
Ami
update
10:51 07/10/2023
Ami
Yaniv
11:05 07/10/2023
Ami
I worry about you madly
11:39 07/10/2023
Ami
Give me a signal please Yaniv
11:42 07/10/2023
Ami
I'm begging Yaniv
12:15 07/10/2023
Ami
Yaniv are you okay? 😥
14:49 07/10/2023
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From the home of the Fiorentino family, son Ariel calls his cousin Nevo and tells him that everything is fine with him, but he is worried that he has not been able to contact his parents in the last hours

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Ariel is evacuated with Sharon Fiorentino and her daughters on the second bus that leaves the Kibbutz to the first stop of Sha'ar HaNegev. At this time, his parents and two sisters are defined missing

The Day After

8.10.2023 Morning

Relatives receive the news

8.10.2023 Evening

Ariel's uncle and aunt decide to adopt him

10/17/2023

Family members are laid to rest
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The family is informed that Yaniv, Yasmin and their two daughters were murdered

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Ariel's aunt, Ayelet Cohen-Zohar, and her husband Tomer decide to adopt Ariel immediately upon the realization that he remains an orphan. When the exhausted Ariel wakes up, after having gone through the hardships of the day before at the Kibbutz, Ayelet tells him that the most terrible thing happened: Mom and Dad were murdered, and with them, his sisters Keshet and Tchelet. Since the disaster, Ayelet and Tomer have been raising Ariel as one of their own children, in their home in Rishon LeZion

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The family members - Yaniv, Yasmin, Keshet and Tchelet Zohar - are laid to rest at the cemetery in Rishon LeZion and buried side by side

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    Yaniv's sister, Ayelet Cohen-Zohar, in a eulogy over his grave and the graves of Yasmin, Keshet and Tchelet
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