Slain hostages, Shiri Bibas and her young two sons, Ariel and Kfir, will be laid to rest near the family’s home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on Wednesday. The funeral brings an end to the Bibas family’s year and a half long nightmare after the trio, along with father and husband, Yarden Bibas, were kidnapped from their home on October 7, 2023.

Eulogies at ceremony near Kibbutz Nir Oz may be live-streamed; sister says Yarden Bibas struggling to come to terms with horrible news of his wife and young sons' murder in captivity The post Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas to be buried in closed family ceremony on Wednesday appeared first on The Times of Israel.

In an emotional storm, certain figures emerge as anchors. Ariel and Kfir Bibas embody this collective pain, giving form to trauma that would otherwise remain a formless cloud of anxiety and shock. Their recognizable image allows the mind to avoid slipping into an impalpable void and instead begin to process the loss.