Two victims with ties to Canada who were killed in Hamas's attacks on Israel were remembered fondly by relatives on Wednesday, who called for the world to recognize the brutality of what happened.
Tiferet Lapidot, 22, was formally identified by authorities on Monday, more than a week after she died at a music festival near the Gaza Strip border, where Hamas's attack began on Oct. 7. Her family had thought she was among those being held hostage.
Oran Zlotnik said Lapidot had taught in Africa and had lived in Australia. Zlotnik said she had returned to Israel for the holidays and was a few days shy of her 23rd birthday. "We sort of had to work under the assumption that she's there because if she's there and we're doing nothing, it would be horrible," Zlotnik said.
"They didn't know us, but they helped us, and I'm proud to be the Canadian and proud to be a Jewish Canadian," he said. Since his death, many of those he met throughout his young life have reached out to the family to pay tribute to him.She learned the circumstances of his death from texts messages he had sent her in the moments before he was killed, and from his fiancée, Irene Shavit, who survived. They had been a couple for 18 months and had plans to marry."She witnessed this horror and she did survive," Shachar-Epstein said.
She lived in the same community as Netta: Kibbutz Kfar Aza. On the day of the attack, her father-in-law called to say his wife had fallen in the kibbutz. Shachar-Epstein said she didn't realize the danger at the time and went over to see what had happened.
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