On Monday, January 1, the Kibbutz Be'eri announced in a joint statement with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum that Ilan Weiss, who had been abducted by terrorists on October 7, was killed in the Gaza Strip.
No further details are known. Weiss, 56, left his home on the morning of October 7 to join the kibbutz emergency response team. His family didn't hear from him after this.
His wife Shiri, 53, and daughter Noga, 18, were seized and taken hostage in Gaza. The two were released on November 25 as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar and the United States between Hamas and Israel.
