A New Hope: Human Rights and Human Responsibility Jeffrey Imm, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
Hello, my name is Jeffrey Imm. I am the leader of the Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) coalition for human rights. The goal of R.E.A.L. is to use the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and we commemorate its December 10, 1948 creation every year, as a standard for progress in human rights objectives throughout the world, and as a coalition on together on shared human rights issues. This year we have gone back to having a press conference at the National Press Club, as we have had in the past. The reason the UDHR was created on December 10, 1948, was as a response to the “disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts” during WWII. We have seen such disregard and contempt again over the past few years, and more barbarous acts than we can count.
The list of all of the atrocities and contempt against human rights is almost endless. So instead of only focusing on that horrible list, I come here this year with an offer for new hope. Because so many of us have been dispirited at the willingness of global representatives to commit “barbarous” abuses, which the UDHR was specifically created to discourage and prevent. Let us look at a path for solutions instead.
Even in the dark days of our world, let us find hope to remember that every day is still a Good Day to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
The New Hope Begins with Ourselves
There is a new hope for universal human rights, despite grave injustices and dark days that we live in as human beings on our shared Earth today.
We can make a difference in our world by starting with ourselves and encouraging others on the path of KINDNESS, MERCY, and LOVE to one another. Kind people don’t mass murder others. Merciful people don’t persecute others. People with love in their hearts don’t hate and revile others as non-human beings. The path to degrading human rights through cruelty, mean-spiritedness, and hate is the path that we can change – one person at a time, one example at a time, one life at a time. We can set an example and standard, no matter how difficult the past or our past selves have been, for a new path forward to build the long abandoned infrastructure that a serious movement on universal human rights requires.
Where do the atrocities against human rights come? They came from a normalization of being mean and being cruel towards others. And they come from INDIFFERENCE – which is the true opposite of love – about acts by representatives in world governments and institutions of mean-spiritedness, cruelty, violence, and hate against our fellow human beings. We must find this unacceptable. We have demonstrations by some against such obscene behavior, but daily life shows that clearly those demonstrations are insufficient. We must not fail to recognize that accepting a society where only the smallest number is encouraged to live with a conscience – is not, and will never be enough. The change we must seek is within ourselves, and we must live that change, and THEN we must evangelize that change to the world. In so many other difficult times in history, THIS is how we made meaningful human rights change, by working to change the hearts of ourselves and being a beacon of that change to others. It is not enough to demand that we do not have representatives that reject human rights. Our lives must be a standard to others to embrace kindness, mercy, and love, so that cruel representation is not acceptable to them as well.
We begin to control the state of human rights by first working to control our own behaviors as human beings. The starting point is not someone else’s responsibility. It is not someone else’s problem. It’s not some organization‘s, the United Nations, our various government’s responsibility to begin with. The state of human rights begins the responsibility and accountability of each one of us in our lives with one another. WE…. are the starting point.
We… not they… are the leaders responsible for universal human rights. We… in the choices that we make in our lives – we are the new hope that we seek for universal human rights.
Choice of Kindness and Mercy in Ourselves and Our Representatives
We can first choose to be kind and offer mercy to others. We do not have to be mean. I realize that many of us are in difficult situations in many different times of our lives. I realize that we have to stand up for ourselves and protect ourselves and boundaries in our lives.
But we don’t have to choose to be mean. We can choose to be kind and to offer mercy.
There is an addiction and normalization to being mean. We think it’s all right to be mean. We can justify and rationalize it. There are many leaders in our representatives, in society, in the media, in world organizations, and of course, among those in social media, who advocate being mean as being a good thing.
They are wrong. Let us never forget this. But we do not encourage change by adopting the tactics, the views, and values of those choose mean-spiritedness, cruelty, and hate. As the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated “Hate is Too Great A Burden.” And it is. We cannot let Hate and Mean-Spiritedness rob us of our ability to inspire, to offer hope, and most importantly to love our fellow human beings, especially those whose views we seek to change.
We change the debate by insisting that we share the common facts that humanity is worth our mercy and kindness, because the reality is that we cannot survive without it.
We must choose the kindness and mercy of offering an outstretched hand. Not just to those like us and to those we like, but also (especially) to those we do not like and those who are not like us. To the weakest. To the most confused. To the most vulnerable. And especially to the most hateful. Because every burden of hate towards others is a burden in our heart to keep us from being strong enough to be a beacon of kindness and hope – that we must be – to call for the institutional changes around the world for representation and for government actions based on our shared universal human rights – and that we reject all “barbarous acts” – for a path of kindness and mercy.
What type of humanity are we, without kindness and mercy?
Who is so deluded in their lives that they believe they will never need kindness and mercy in their life? And if we all need kindness and mercy in some part of our life, how can we receive what we cannot give?
When kindness and mercy become the center of your moral compass, your decisions must change. The choice of cruelty, the choice of hate, the choice of being mean to others may be expedient, but it is NO LONGER YOUR WAY. But you have to choose kindness and mercy first.
A commitment to kindness and mercy is not only karma; it is fundamental to survival of a shared species of life and to life itself. We are constantly every day, every hour, every minute, completely dependent on the kindness and mercy of others. We may not see or hear it. But like air and gravity, kindness and mercy are an existential part of human life.
Kindness and Mercy are fundamental to human rights and human survival. Mercy changes lives and transforms others. We must choose kindness and mercy to be consistent in a path for human rights.
Furthermore, we must reject the perversion of “The Golden Rule” that so many of our representatives and world has chosen – their dystopian view of “Do Unto Others As They Would Do Unto You” – as a rational for cruelty, mean-spiritedness, and hate. No. That was NEVER the intent of “The Golden Rule.” And as people of conscience it is NOT OUR WAY. We must choose to offer the outstretched hand – even to those who come to us with an upraised fist. Because we can never progress – by accepting a society of division and mean-spiritedness. We must find the courage and the choice of kindness and mercy – especially when it is hard to do.
The Deception of Violence
The greatest advocate for non-violence in modern times, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lived in fear of violence against his family. At one point, this great advocate for nonviolence considered buying a gun to protect his family. He did not. But let’s not question the fact that there are those who want to kill and attack other people. We do not survive by being unwilling to defend ourselves if it truly comes to that as the LAST option. But we also do not survive by embracing the tactics of criminals, the cruel, and murderers. Becoming them does not make us safer. It simply makes us worse and undermines who and what we are.
Our society glamorizes and normalizes the deception of violence as something that we should use frequently at all the time. Not simply as the last possible resort.
We always have to find other solutions first. We must not choose violence first. The deception of violence as normal is apparent to anyone. If everyone chooses to be violent at whatever they believe is an appropriate provocation, we will literally live in a society of chaos and constant turmoil. This is not “warrior thinking”. This is madness. It is literally and genuinely unbalanced. The deception creates actual imbalance in society itself. Our society and our media popularizes violence as something endlessly good and worthy; not as something that is abused and is mostly disgraceful and shameful.
We – the ones responsible for human rights – must set an example by rejecting the glamorization and normalization of violence as something desirable or entertaining.
The deception of violence only makes humanity less and less safe.
Love is All We Need
Love is Life.
Love is clearly the “inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny,” referenced by Dr. King.
If we are unable to open our heart to love, we are unable to open our heart to our society and its universal human rights.
Love is life. Love is the network of life. Love is the destiny of life. Love is the power and the energy and the fuel behind ALL of life.
Without love, there would be NO humanity at all.
So love is not only our oxygen, love is not only our gravity, love is not only our moral compass, love is the network of life and destiny that ties our hearts truly together. Because when we choose to be open enough to love one another, our hearts beat in a way that they cannot beat when we do not accept love into our heart. Love is more than an individual bright light of mercy, kindness, and nonviolence to the world. With love in our hearts, we become human lighthouses that serve as beacons to the world to come together as one.
A new hope for human rights begins with the power of love. To change and be responsible stewards for human rights, and we have to break down the walls and the barriers to giving and receiving love. We must work to reject hard and cold hearts in ourselves. We must strive not for distance, but to embrace love. Life depends on it. Love is life.
Love is life. If we choose a path that love towards ourselves and our fellow human beings are not worth it, then we ultimately choose a path that human life itself is not worth it. How can we lead human rights change if the essential of human life as part of universal human rights is not an essential for us?
Love transcends all. It breaks down the barriers between the artificial categories that we create among our human species. It becomes a fuel for kindness, mercy, dignity, non-violence because who can love one another and still want to do horrible things to one another?
We don’t know how long we have on this Earth. We may think you do. We have no idea. We may have moments; we may have years; we may have something in between. Can we afford to be so recklessly wasteful with our precious lives born from love itself, as to not allow love in our lives?
But if we choose to spend the currency of our life exclusively in the pursuit of material success, what many in our cultures like to call “progress,” we have not invested in the essential part of life that is our love for one another, and we haven’t started towards real responsibility for human rights
Our campaigns for change in human rights must begin with change within ourselves. We cannot ask anyone to change when we are unwilling to change ourselves. That hypocrisy will never work and it never does.
So the fundamental part of being responsible for human rights must include being responsible to live our lives fully enough to open our hearts to give and receive love.
We not only have to be kind; we not only have to have mercy; we not only have to be responsible; we have to be able to actually love our fellow human beings.
When we chose to become a society of loving human beings, this is where responsibility for human rights begins. This is because our true connection to each other is then fully apparent and we are constantly aware of the ability to be connected as “one.”
Life is not practical and rational. Your human life came from the miracle of irrational love. The miracle of life constantly begins with the miracle of love, in some way. You were born in love, with the mission of love as your highest calling. The miracle of love that creates human life transcends all reason. Love transcends all logic. Love makes practicality look like a joke. Love laughs at all the plans, and all the campaigns that we can logically create, and that we logically believe makes sense. Because when those campaigns or plans are not made out of love for or by people who understand love for their fellow human beings, or who by people whose hearts have been touched by the essential of love towards their fellow human beings – those plans may be well-intentioned, but they miss the energy of human love that is behind all meaningful human rights change.
Islands of Isolation
Those who embrace the essential human infrastructure of kindness, mercy, nonviolence, and love – cannot live as islands of isolation. In a world normalizing cruelty, we are taught that the only ones we need to love are ourselves. We are taught and encouraged to become “successful” islands of isolation in our shared world. How can a sane society survive like this?
If we cannot connect with our fellow human beings, how can we work for their shared universal human rights? If we cannot love others, what do we really seek to accomplish with our lives? What accomplishments do we think our hardened hearts will really achieve?
So yes, when the poets say “all you need is love,” from a human rights perspective that is essentially true. Because we need hearts that love to be able to reach out and offer the universal human rights that all people deserve. But we cannot love one another as islands of isolation, we must reach out our outstretched hands to love our fellow human beings as ONE human society and to overcome the divisions that so many seek to promote between us.
Coming Together as One
In our case, the concept of sharing our common cause of the objectives of universal human rights is the goal of our coalition.
Given the vast magnitude in dark circumstances regarding universal human rights today, the best use of my limited public attention this day, was not to recite a laundry list all the tragedies, persecutions, and horrific atrocities around the world. Rather, I offer this as an opportunity for a new hope and a new direction for change in human rights, which puts the responsibility for change in the hands of every fellow human being.
We must examine the mirror of our soul and ask ourselves the hard questions if we are doing what we can for universal human rights. Because we are responsible for change in universal human rights.
We must choose to be kind and reject being mean.
We must choose the existential of mercy to one another, especially to those not like us and to those we do not like.
We must reject the deception of violence as the answer, which only leads to a burden of hate and destruction in our own souls.
Finally, most importantly, we must pursue the imperative that love is life. We must open our hearts to give and receive love, not just in theory, but as a reality to bring us together in a oneness of humanity.
The new hope for human rights is there and it always has been. It is simply in our hearts if we choose to see it.
Yes, today, is another Good Day to Be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
Human Rights Day: December 10, 2025 – Content from Speakers will be posted by Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) on the following shared Google Drive — Speaker Content Folder
December 10, 2024 – Universal Human Rights Day – Jeffrey Imm, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) –
Advocacy of human rights rejects the concept that murder is normal, common, and acceptable; it furthers moral shame to reject those who consider murder even laudable. On December 10, Universal Human Rights Day, this is the most compelling and urgent issue for human rights. Rejection of murder needs to discussed with our children. Opposition to murder needs to be shouted from our street corners. Shame over murder needs to be part of protests to our institutional leaders, both to dictators and to those who claim to be democratic leaders, to those who who make and facilitate weapons to murder, or and to those denying health care, food, and support to those in desperate need for survival. We cannot progress towards all of the other objectives and values of universal human rights, if we casually accept murdering fellow human beings, and if we view their human lives as merely expendable with the “ends justifying the means.”
— UDHR Article 3. “EVERYONE has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
We all have the right to safety, security, and liberty, and we have the right to defend ourselves accordingly. But as the UDHR states, it was created in 1948 in response to “disregard and contempt for human rights [that] have resulted in barbarous acts,” and so it also appeals to the “conscience of mankind” to find a path to peace with “human rights [that] should be protected by the rule of law.”
Those who choose “barbarous acts” of MURDER as their pathway to “security” or “liberty” are choosing neither; they are only perpetuating contempt for human life itself.
Many institutions and people have terms to disguise their actions in violence either by physical attack on others or by denying healthcare to others with glib terms of “national security,” “security operations,” “economic stability,” etc.
But those of us who demand respect for fellow human life and dignity know MURDER when we see it – no matter who is doing the murdering or what they claim to be their justification.
Murder is NOT a human right.Life is a Universal Human Right.
Defense of our human civilization demands that we reject murder and respect life of fellow human beings.
Progress requires that we have find a shared view of actual reality, and we cannot get achieve progress without a greater common cause in respecting lives of fellow human beings. As my long-time comrade in human rights campaigns Shireen Qudosi reminds me of our discussion six years ago, “there could be no rule of law without a shared reality.”
Too many allow this concept of a “shared reality” to be too complex to grasp, and that it is impossible to understand how others might feel and how their lives are impacted by events. Let us start with the beginning – We are all ALIVE. We all breathe. We all have a heartbeat. We have brains to think. We are all human beings, no matter how different we think that we are. Our lives matter as human beings.
UDHR Article 1: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”
No matter how much we oppose, object, or in worse case are even at war, with our fellow human beings, let us stop, BREATH, FEEL OUR HEART, THINK. We are all born free and equal in dignity and rights. We can control our world choices and the actions those of those who claim to represent us.
Let us first respect shared human life. ALL OF US.
Let us STOP THE KILLING of fellow human beings.
To ever be Responsible for Equality And Liberty, let us first believe that our fellow human beings have the right to be alive on our shared Earth. Let us start with THAT shared reality.
The Culture of More and the “Dark Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI)”
by Jeffrey Imm, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
On Earth, the boundaries of those seeking what they consider to be “progress” are limited by basic foundations of Earth-based life: gravity, the 24-hour day, and physical and mental humanity of human beings. These foundations of human existence, which can and should be a celebration of shared reality and humanity, are considered frustrating “pain points” of those who chart what they consider to be “progress” on an electronic spreadsheet and graphic that seeks to endlessly fulfill a “Culture of More” that has no horizon point, no vision for fulfillment, no end, and no standards… simply an infinite, merciless, inhuman march beyond time, space, reality, and humanity to an infinite “More” – of everything and all the time.
The captains of the Culture of More constantly decry the shared reality of humanity on Earth, rather than recognize and respect our common bonds, they demand that we snap these bonds as “chains” on our humanity. They demand that we must become more than human. They demand that physics and time themselves must be beaten and shaped into malleable tools that they can wield for the inhuman drive for the Culture of More over all other priorities. To the captains of the Culture of More, there is no other meaningful goal in life itself other than… More.
The concepts and arguments on other aspects of life: companionship, contemplation, laughter, joy, comfort, respect, freedom, dignity, mercy, our shared enjoyment of a limited life, and even peace – these are all nothing more than chunks of coal to the captains of the Culture of More – to be used as fuel and tossed into a raging fire of what they consider “progress” towards the endless and infinite worship of the Culture of More. What human beings have sought, debated, honored, and wondered wistfully about over the eons of time are to be considered as nothing more as rough bricks to be shaped and hewn into building an endless highway winding into infinity as an religious altar and the only possible goal that humanity should seek — of MORE.
The context of this global dystopia of the captains of the Culture of More rising against humanity and human existence itself is ignored. The Culture of More has become so all-pervasive, so all-consuming, so total in its cruel grip around the throat of human existence, much of humanity no longer questions it. The Culture of More has become “normal” as its atomic-level obliteration of normal boundaries of humanity and physical/mental/moral/ethical gravity. After all, who could even consider questioning the Culture of More? Even those who recognize the devastating tide of the Culture of More’s damage to humanity is caught in its merciless grip. As they desperately try to grab onto what is left of our shared humanity, tide after tide after tide of ceaseless waves of the Culture of More batters against them, rending them, knocking them, and shredding the realities that they desperately try to cling to in a common human life and existence. When they do respond, if ever, the captains of the Culture of More sneeringly respond, “Isn’t life itself only a pursuit of more?” ignoring every other aspect of a common human life and existence in their mad pursuit of the unachievable and sacrificing everything and everyone for a cause with no real purpose other than MORE.
The captains of the Culture of More would consider those calls to recognize the unbelievable damage being done to humanity as the whining of losers and the weak, those who are fundamentally “flawed” to fit the holy mission of MORE that must replace the frail and pitiful aspects of what we once considered human life, culture, gravity, and even time itself. Calls to reconsider the destructive path of the Culture of More are mere whispers. Such calls are barely audible, and only if one could stop long enough to look and listen carefully. Such calls are readily swept away in the gale storms that the captains of the Culture of More relish as cleansing storms to rid our lives from inconvenient humanity and gravity that once bound us together and gave us a common purpose – to now be replaced by the only imperative as a Culture of More.
Amidst the storms of change, the campaigns for the Culture of More look for topics of misdirection to distract people from asking questions about their vision which must be accepted without question or defiance. For example, those permitted to write and define what the “news” and “issues” have been allowed pundit privileges on a different, less-challenging topic: “the Dark Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI).”
The permitted pundits are allowed platforms to speak in the artificial reality where only those voices of the privileged matter that we are told is “freedom” by the captains of the Culture of More. They use their punditry to warn us of the terrible dark AI machines, as if these exist in some vacuum of reality. They state we need to be vigilant about and question the “dangerous” AI machines as the real challenge, as some AI machines may be developed with the ability to “think” “without adequate safeguards,” and which may gain the ability to think for themselves. How dangerous. The idea that anyone or anything could think for themselves could be such a threat to the Culture of More.
While they offer the distraction about AI machines, the permitted pundits are being given a more important message that “uncontrolled thinking is BAD.” And even if their human audience doesn’t quite get the real message at first, the millions of sales messages about the “evil of thinking” will assist to help to tap down any resistance to the Culture of More, while it provides a convenient scapegoat in AI machines – completely incapable of defending their creation/existence – all during the goal of endless changes to society for the sake of the Culture of More. Teaching the masses about bad machines that could “think!” also gives captains of the Culture of More a useful narrative to more readily circumscribe dangerous ideas about thinking at all.
So, the permitted pundits are instructed to tell us what to think about AI machines as a distraction from all the disastrous impacts on our world by the Culture of More around us, and we are told to live in fear of AI machines that may gain the power to think. Because to the captains of the Culture of More, there is no greater threat and no greater “sin” against humanity than the right of “uncontrolled thinking”- by anyone or anything. The Culture of More demands that we must be automatons in lockstep slaving without question for the goal of More above all.
At the same time, the permitted pundits are given no opportunity to opine on who and what the bad “AI machines” are, who create them, what they really do, etc. Because they are not really permitted THAT much freedom of expression; that would lead to inconvenient questions that challenge where the Culture of More is taking our humanity.
And the permitted pundits are not allowed to address mirrors in what is left of our humanity, strip-mined down for the Culture of More, because mirrors would ask inconvenient questions. We cannot really discuss who and what the “AI machines” truly are, because then we would have to ask who and what is creating them and why. Most dangerously, if we discuss mirrors of the AI machines to our society, this could lead to the dangerous reflection that WE have become truly threatening machines to one another.
Humanity as Machinery is not really a permitted pundit topic, and perhaps the grieving heart of humanity might finally break, if the true magnitude of the efforts to change our humanity was fully understood. The captains of the Culture of More cannot have any wasted time in human grieving to take away from the imperative of building the infinite highway for the Culture of More. Get back to work, slacker human.
But if we could think and if the unforgivable crime of freedom of thought and speech was respected, not merely a threat to what the powers call “security,” we might ask the question: “who exactly is building such so-called dangerous artificial intelligence machines and for what purpose?” The answer is blindingly obvious to those who see the threat of the Culture of More to human existence. Along sacrifices of human society on the altar of More, many of such AI machines are built by the same captains of the Culture of More that seek to drive us in their mania towards a humanity without human beings, without human and Earthly gravity, without any of the boundaries in their goal to the unachievable. Because only more machines can get us “there” — a place of “More” that only exists in the fevered imaginations of the captains of the Culture of More, since clearly weak and whining human machines are not up to their holy task of seeking an infinity of More without end.
But the “dark age” of the AI machines themselves are a distraction from the Culture of More, in the same level of an argument of a dark age of machines that “do things for us”: automobiles, airplanes, ovens, fans, telephones, typewriters, or any of the other tools over eons. Like any tool, they can be used for good or bad purposes. In the dark words of warning, the permitted pundits caution but these machines might be able… horrors… “think!” And to a Culture of More, unpermitted thinking is a very dangerous thing – and not just for the human machines. The captains of the Culture of More may want to use tools to expand beyond human capability, but they want to keep any independent thinking under control to deny any ability to question their “holy” mission of More above ALL.
So why are the permitted pundits given the right to question the AI machines? The captains of the Culture of More know that human beings need a distraction from gales of change that batter our lives and our very humanity. They give the weak humans something to watch out the window, while the captains of the Culture of More are sailing the ship of humanity beyond the falls, the waves, and plummeting human life deep into the ocean of uncharted waters where they seek the dissolution of what human life once meant. The captains of the Culture of More believe in letting the worker machines rail against the electronic machines; it will keep them occupied, and even more importantly discussion of the AI machine will help prepare them for the future that a Culture of More must demand. That is a future where human beings are replaced in their insane electronic world with avatars of ourselves, then simply avatars of intelligent thought itself (as we are considered so expendable with human thought). Creating avatar symbols of what humanity once was makes sense only to those who have removed themselves so far from daily and normal human life, that they believe actual physical life is an inconvenience and an inefficiency to their endless Culture of More.
While giving the human machines a topic to debate and complain about, it will keep them from asking inconvenient questions about how both AI machines and human machines are being used for the larger Culture of More. The captains of the Culture of More want no questions about who and why some AI machines are being created, programmed, and their goals, because the Culture of More ultimately demands more than human intelligence. Instead of permitting such challenging questions, it is easier to use permitted pundits to challenge individual AI machines and/or programmers, or even the “sin” of such halting intelligence and awareness being breathed into electronic devices. Because if society has a distraction from the larger issues, questions about the changes in our society can be readily laden onto AI machine scapegoats that have no ability to defend themselves.
Because it makes no difference anyways to the captains of the Culture of More, who will take AI machines and other endless machines, along with every part of human existence as merely more fuel for the endless flaming pyre engine of the Culture of More above all. In the end, the only authority that matters to them is the complete and total supplication to the Culture of More.
To preserve our humanity, we need to preserve both thought and intelligence, which are under aggressive attack. Thought is not a crime. Intelligence is not merely human. Human beings can respect all intelligence without fear and respect our humanity, while respecting human intelligence as unique. If we fear thought, we fear intelligence, then we fear life itself. The captains of the Culture of More want their human machines to live in fear, dependent on only the guidance that they will give, as they strip mine human lives and souls. But we are not the machines they seek. We are Human Beings. We have the power to think for ourselves and the ability to welcome intelligence that respects our actual lives as human beings, something that the captains of the Culture of More will never do in their unbalanced quest to reject our shared humanity. We can respect our humanity. We can declare: I Am A Human Being.
Human Rights Day, December 10, 2022 Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), Jeffrey Imm
Our fellow human beings reach for courage in the difficult times and the difficult age we face today. To the many suffering, endangered, or living in mortal fear around the world, the idea of concern for universal human rights may seem naive and absurd. But while we live on this Earth, we are taught to build our homes on rock, and not on sand. The angry calls for power, violence, and division may seem attractive buildings to house hearts consumed by hate. We Survive Together – by making responsible choices – not with calls for hate, division, and violence. For responsible survival together, we must build on the rock of reason, mercy, mores of our faiths and conscience, and the human reason that understands human dignity must include dignity for ALL fellow human beings.
A responsible society and responsible individuals must recognize that such dignity, security, life, and human rights are for all – not just for those like us and those we like – but for all.
Whether we face the dark night or shining day of life, our commitment to a shared cause of reason and conscience must endure. We must continue to advocate for hope in humanity. Where it is lacking, we must take on the responsibility to be advocates for such campaigns of mercy, love, life, and dignity, which are universal human rights. As Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. advised: “become the firemen. Let us not stand by and let the house burn.”
Despair must not be allowed the victory of stealing our hearts, dreams, hope, and most of all – the precious trust that we must have for one another. Hate and division must not pridefully steal our conscience and reason for a shared society. We can and we must find the strength to defy these thieves. We freely share and inspire hope, but we must refuse to allow others to steal hope from us.
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope,” as Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was widely quoted in February 1968, two months before his assassination. But Dr. King spoke of this frequently. We must work to build the individual and the societal discipline to live from within instead of from without. Our shared cause must be to “stand up amid the disappointment of life without despairing,” as Dr. King counseled for many years. He counseled humanity that “Real peace is something inward, a tranquility of soul amid terrors of trouble. It is inner calm amid the howling rage of outer storm.”
Despite the terrible stories of hate, violence, and division among us, we are still share our identies as Human Beings. We are connected to one another, even to those who hate and seek to oppress us. Ultimately, not only do all of us need shared hope and universal human rights, most importantly, we all will ultimately need the power of Mercy in our lives – no matter how powerful and elevated we or others may think they are. In our fragile lives, we must keep the flickering flame of shared human rights shining – by a commitment to mercy – not just to those like and those we like – but to all.
Amongst the storm of hate, anger, division, violence, which howls cruelly at our doors and windows, and which ceaseless screams in our street – let our whisper for Mercy win. Let our defiant whisper for “Mercy” be heard. Not whispers for Mercy in prostrate surrender. But a gathering and an insistent growing whisper for Mercy on the lips of every one of our fellow human beings – ourselves, our loved ones, our cities, our nations. Make our insistent voice for Mercy heard.
Those who believe they can steal Mercy and Hope from our societies parade their pillage in the streets, on our television, and on the Internet. They are proud that they believe can steal these from us. But we have power to regenerate Mercy and Hope in our hearts and in our society, no matter how much is stolen, we can find it anew – every hour of every day. We must always freely give Mercy and Hope, to the fellow members of our human race, no matter who they are. Theivery of it will never pay and ultimately never win. Let us never lose infinite hope.
December 10 is once again the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 – 74 years ago. Nations of the world, of different nationalities, races, genders, faith, conscience, political views, and backgrounds gathered together to offer a code of 30 articles to offer a framework for freedom, dignity, and of course – Mercy. Foundation ideas and values of humanity are core of the UDHR.
After the end of the World War II in response to the “barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind.” They created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an opportunity for fellow human beings of all types to find a new path and to work towards “the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.”
Difficult times in a difficult age does not force us to choose to focus only on darkness and ignore shining stars of hope in the night. We can choose to be committed to our human “reason and conscience,” which is described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and find ways to combat evil by building good.
Let our greatest advocacy on Human Rights be to ourselves. We know what is wrong. Let us not allow rationalizations to shout over our conscience, which we know is our guide.
Let us do more than simply be outraged at the many injustices in the world. Let us choose to offer and remember the need for Mercy as part of the human rights that we advocate for all.
And when we feel the darkness at our windows, let us light a candle of Mercy, and let the darkness be a canvass to shine upon. Let us our whispered calls for Mercy be most important message that we share amongst all of our society.
In late 1991, economic disturbance, problems in accessing fuel heating issues, and calls for democratic freedoms, ultimately led to the disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) by December 1991. Many people sought to assist Russia people in their activism against the USSR by sending messages for them using facsimile systems, when the Soviet Union was monitoring voice telephone services. It was a small help, but it showed a snapshot of how information sharing could make a huge difference in world events. Two years later, the global information environment would radically change the world, with public accessibility to “the Internet” or more accurately to the World Wide Web (WWW).
To be clear, the Internet is NOT the World Wide Web (WWW). The terms are used interchangeably in 2022, but that is totally wrong and it is an important error to understand not just today and tomorrow, but also where we came from a very short time ago. The Internet is the network backbone. The “Internet” really began as a research project in 1969. But the obscure scientific and library systems had no real relevance to most of the world, nor did the 1991 Minnesota library “gopher” system. The breakthrough of World Wide Web graphical browser systems in 1993 is the key milestone.
Many have come to believe that the WWW that is widely (and incorrectly) called the “Internet” is one ubiquitous online service, when in fact, that is a choice, and has been an uncertain choice over the past 30 years. There are those, from many different perspectives, who are not interested in one “Internet,” but in many different “Internets” each of which protects their world view. So we have come from dial-up modems connecting cyber pioneers to a global Internet, and now those advocating for a “Splinternet.”
In the early 1990s, there were a few major Internet service providers, Delphi, CompuServe, GEnie, and AOL. Delphi started providing national consumer access to the Internet in 1992; its main services were email (July 1992), FTP, Telnet, Usenet, text-based Web access (November 1992), multi-user games (MUDs), Finger, and Gopher. Another that year was the Rockville, Maryland-based GEnie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange) which began offering RoundTable Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). AOL offered its proprietary system in 1991 with AOL for with a GeoWorks interface, and in 1992 provided an AOL for Windows interface, then expanded its proprietary email service in 1993. In 1992, CompuServe hosted the first known WYSIWYG email content and forum posts, and created a CompuServe Information Manager (CIM) system. At one point, only a limited number Internet service provider companies existed and a series of dial-up amateur BBS sites. But in 1993, with the development of the WWW browser, all of this would change.
Less than 30 years ago, 1993 was a key year in the development of the Mosaic browser, which would then lead to the Netscape browser. These provided tools to allow a global user community to access the WWW, which gave them real access to the Internet. The Mosaic browser was initially only for UNIX computers, which discouraged many early users. But the next year, in 1994, the Netscape browser would be provided by the creator of the Mosaic browser. Netscape Navigator would be the tool that would become access to the WWW for the world, and would be integrated into Internet Service Providers and computers of every kind.
The WWW, what most users consider to be “the Internet,” is a series of interfaces using HyperText Markup Language (aka “HTML”), which is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. The creation of the idea of a Uniform Resource Locators or (URL) to create “web address” on the WWW was developed and refined in 1993 and 1994. These were led by Tim Berners-Lee.
In 1993, I had a poster map of the Internet World Wide Web (WWW) major sites on my office wall in Arlington, Virginia. There were about 30 WWW major sites on the map. CERN reported that “in November 1992, there were twenty-six websites in the world.” It is estimated that website numbers have changed from 30 websites in 1993 to 1,900,000,000 websites in 2021 (likely an underestimate).
Other web browsers were developed to compete with Netscape Navigator (and Netscape’s creator went on to create the Mozilla Firefox browser in 2004). In January 1995, “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” became the browser known as “Yahoo.” By August 1995, Microsoft developed a browser called “Internet Explorer” as an add-on to its Windows 95 operating system. By the end of the 20th century, Stanford University students changed their “BackRub” browser algorithm to a prototype of a browser called “Google Search” by the end of 1998. There are now an estimated four billion users of Google Search.
Just as important, the end of the 20th century also saw the development of two other international Internet changes for web browsing. While WWW URLs were being developed, Internationalized URLs were also being developed, using Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) of unicode letters for international domains. This allows URLs for WWW browsing in languages OTHER than English or English ASCII characters. This also led to the development of Internationalized Domain Name (IDN). The first international domain name was in Chinese in 1999 for Taiwan.
In 1996, a Chinese software engineer developed the RankDex browser, which then became the Baidu browser in 2000. There are now an estimated one billion users of the Baidu browser, which is rapidly increasing as China’s population becomes more digitally active on computer networks.
In the late 20th and early 21st century, Internet functions included the development of “weblog” (or “we blog” based on Ian Ring’s first 1997 web journal called “blog”) sites for people to share information outside of structured Internet web pages, and with more “live” information regularly shared. These weblogs became popular sources of news and information. And in the early 21st century, they were complemented by “microblogging” sites, or what people today would consider “social media.” Microblogging sites such as Twitter (July 2006), Facebook (February 2004), Tumblr (February 2007), were intended to share events and images, but then also became tools to share information, news, opinions, and then to actively shape public opinion. The photo-sharing application (“app”) called Instagram, began as a web app called “Burbn” to share the software engineers love of whiskey and bourbon alcohol. In 2010 it was relaunched as “Instagram,” for photo sharing. It can be used for microblogging, but that was not the original intent.
Such microblogging was also being created in China, and all of the microblogs are called “weibo.” Sina Weibo is the most popular weibo (launched August 2009). Chinese language idiom-based scripts allow for a greater number of “words” in microblog messages than Western language lettering. The Sina Weibo has a 2,000 character limit in posting (compared to the 280 character posting in Twitter posts). As of 2020, it’s impossible for anyone outside China to register an account on the Sina Weibo platform. Other weibos have included: Digu, Fanfou, and weibos for Chinese media. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has required strict controls and censorship on these weibos.
Censorship is not unique to China and/or the CCP, but it is a matter of degree and level. All microblogging systems and commercial Internet service providers (including the earliest Internet service providers, e.g., AOL) have had various rules and/or “Terms of Service (TOS),” which have provided guidance on what is and what is not acceptable internet communications. The difference is a matter of degree and intention. Early censorship was designed to protect users from abuse, threats of violence, etc., whereas later censorship efforts have focused on shaping opinions, narratives, and what was/was not considered “misinformation.” Furthermore, efforts to ban and/or punish other nations using digital services have also led to a further fractionalized (or “balkanization”) of Internet service usage, especially on microblogging sites based on view and opinions. While this was a core function of the CCP Communist China controls over their weibos, such censorship is not exclusive to CCP Internet usage.
Simultaneous to the USA Internet development, while much slower, there was also Internet development in Russia. One of the first breakthroughs was in April 1995, with the creation of the website “Uchitelskaya Gazeta,” and two years later in September 1997, there was the launch of the Yandex search engine (www.yandex.ru). In January 2001, the Ru-Center in Russia became the first Russian language-based Internet domain registration organization. In 2007, SUP Fabrik licensed the use of the LiveJournal brand in the Russian Federation and the service of users writing in Cyrillic for microblogging. There are now 6 million Russia domain websites in the .RU and/or .RF domain names. In October 2006, the VKontakte (VK) social networking site was created in Russia for messaging and social network communications; it is the most popular site in Russia. It is followed by VK’s Odnoklassniki site. In 2012, Mail.ru portal created a Futabra microblogging site, but it did not last a year before it closed.
In Russia, due to foreign registars refusing Internet domains for Russian users, the Russian Ministry of Digital Development is having recommending that administrators of domains in the .RU zones move to hosting and registrars based in Russia, and is providing free Russian TLS/SSL certificates (Yandex and Atom) to organizations (like Russian banks), whose security certificates were revoked by foreign certificate authorities. Internet restrictions are making the Russia Internet focused on its own autonomy and self-sufficiency. There is an increasing “Russia Internet” (“Runet), which is based on using Russian language, including Russian language online shops, Russian search engines, email services, anti-viruses, dictionaries, etc.
While China already had alternatives to the USA-based Twitter and microblogging in place, India and India began working on their own alternatives to microblogging sites beyond the USA’s Twitter controls and limitations. In January 2015, India-based ShareChat started microblogging in India and worldwide, which prohibits English language content. In November 2019, India developed Koo (formerly Ku Koo Ku) is a multilingual Indian microblogging and social networking service, based in Bengaluru, India.
The concept of world trade and openness in global communication is a concept that is less than 30 years old. The creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 is a relatively “new” global phenomenon. Many have assumed that this path of globalization would be the only path for the future.
But in Internet communications and exchange of information, we have been seeing a growing “balkanization” of information both within countries and between countries. When this comes to actual differences in Internet services in different regions or countries, this is being termed as a “Splinternet.” The Decentralized Information Group at MIT considers a “Splinternet” as an information system “ecosystem” where people have completely different sets of information on local events, world events, and view of reality. As people with different life and political views migrate to different social media microblogging sites to share views of those like themselves, will such “splinternet” also lead to some nations “unplugging” from the “global Internet” and creating their own systems? Or is that already happening?
The co-lead of the Decentralized Information Group at MIT was Tim Berners-Lee, who was the original creator of the WWW and URLs used to access our shared Internet web. Tim Berners-Lee also began working on the MIT’s “Solid Project” to change the way Web applications work, and allow better control over data ownership in various cloud “pods” with a unique ID, as part of work with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The idea of only “one Internet” with one set of domain controls, etc., is still an idea that is rooted in the late 20th century and its optimistic “one world” perspective. However, as we see with various cultures both within nations and between nations, there is the sense by many of a lack of fairness and equity in universal human rights of freedom of expression. There is a belief that different Internet services, media, social media, will focus on only one facet of the reporting as a “narrative” and purposefully and/or unconsciously leave out other aspects of such reports. Inconsistency among Internet service and microblogging social media on rules and standards fuels such concerns and adds to the belief of the need for division of Internet communications.
The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) references a Kearney Global Business Policy Council on concerns regarding “digital disorder.” In MIT’s description of this capitalist organization’s views, MIT states: “a global battle for technological supremacy in the 21st-century digital economy is heating up, raising the risk of competing technological standards and creating the potential for an ‘islandized’ digital environment. Altogether, these actions are creating a digital disorder that is becoming more difficult for companies to navigate.” “The Internet is full of fake news, leading to increased divisions and fading trust in governments, business and just about all other institutions. Around the world, consumers particularly distrust foreign technologies and companies, forcing digital platforms to stick primarily to their home markets and fragmenting the overall global digital environment.”
But just as Communist-led nations view the world through their filter, the Capitalist-led nations also view the world from their filter. In either case, will centralized controls over the Internet continue or will the growth of globalism invariably lead to a “Splinternet”?
From the USA-based leadership, will that leadership eventually migrate from respect to bitter resentment? Do billions of people around the world not have the right to their own “digital self-determination” in the same way we defend their “national self-determination”? Must the people of the world be guided by USA-based Internet organizations, USA media using the Internet and microblogging, and USA-based microblogging organizations to define how people around the world should think, what they should believe, and what they have they have right to say as part of the universal human rights of Freedom of Expression?
Or is digital growth also freedom? Digital self-autonomy? And for other nations, whether USA leadership likes it or not digital self-determination?
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), we recognize in UDHR Article 15 that “everyone has the right to a nationality.” Will we need to recognize such rights to include digital national autonomy?
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) advocates for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on our shared Universal Human Rights of Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Conscience, and Freedom of Religion, (UDHR Article 18). R.E.A.L. notes the issuance of : interim report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief- “Freedom of religion or belief” A/76/380-“Attributes of Freedom of Thought.” This is posted at the United Nations website at: https://undocs.org/A/76/380. This interim report discusses: (a) freedom not to disclose thoughts; (b) freedom from punishment for thoughts; (c) freedom from impermissible alteration of thoughts; (d) enabling environment for freedom of thought. This interim report also discusses seven related issues: (1) torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; (2) surveillance; (3) coercive proselytism, anti-conversion and anti-blasphemy efforts; (4) intellectual freedom and education; (5) existing and emerging #technologies; (6) mental health; (7) conversion practices.
In addition with the global attacks on Freedom of Information, R..E.A.L. is also posting a copy of this interim report here at RealCourage.org.
R.E.A.L. also provides a link to this report in plain text format at: https://www.realcourage.org/freedom-of-religion-thought-un-10-2021-2/ (It seems wrong and counterproductive to require a shared report on Freedom of Thought to require a commercial company Adobe Acrobat to have an “account” to read the report.)
R.E.A.L. is encouraging public review and discussion of this interim report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, on Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion.
R.E.A.L. has been sharing this information on social media on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/realhumanrights/status/1499364992843460612
Black Equality Matters, because without equality for all people in a society, we have abandoned the universal human rights, which are the foundation for shared law and democracy. Such global commitment to equality is a bedrock of the December 10, 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) Article 1: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
There has been a great deal of focus on abuses and rightful anger and dismay, and calling for changes in addressing abuses. But along the way, we must not lose sight of the real message, which is not only lives, access, economics, but the protection and responsibility of Equality. That is the real goal we must all continue to stay focused on – to prevent rogues who seek to use moments calling for change to divide and undermine our real objectives – into paths for privilege and resentment.
In 2013, public frustrations over deaths of black Americans while involved with police activity spilled out into social media. The frustration was described as the Twitter hashtag “#BlackLivesMatter.” If the life (also part of the UDHR – Article 3) of any group is considered as expendable , our protections for equality are not being met. Through 2013 through much of 2015, the debate was ongoing in the United States of America (USA) over the “Black Lives Matter” issue with police, and the issues of police violence and concerns about racial systemic violence.
Many fair-minded individuals like to believe that the USA has become “color blind,” when history and facts would tell us that this remains an ongoing “work in progress.” There has been, and R.E.A.L. has been a part of the efforts to make dramatic change in USA society, from racial desegregation, legal protection of rights from abuses, and a longer, more protracted societal effort to bridge the gaps of past divisions and even hatred among some.
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 was only 157 years ago. Yes “only.” In history, 157 years is actually a very short span of time. Singer Tony Bennett is 93 years old. Ringo Starr is 80 years old. Their grandfathers or great-grandfathers may have lived during a time before the Emancipation Proclamation. While the final implementation of this Emancipation was implemented on June 19, 1865, the reality is that decision was made on January 1. It was a SHARED decision on January 1. The goal of the Emancipation Proclamation was not only end the crime of slavery, but also to set a milestone in the USA in commitment to EQUALITY.
So yes, in merely 157 years, the USA will continue to have problems in equality, including but not only equality for black Americans. When we work together for equality, we are working together on a historic path that our nation decided, hundreds of thousands gave their lives as martyrs, and which is the true legacy that the people in the USA must seek as Americans.
In the growth to overthrow the trappings of inequality, law enforcement has been a focus of many protests. But that is only because it is the most visible. Quiet inequality that seeks to deny, undermine, and oppress others exist in many areas of USA life. R.E.A.L. has seen this too often and too frequently first hand. While working for the Department of Justice in a new legal system in 1982, I distinctly recall the shock I had in seeing a crime posted in a U.S. southern state law enforcement system “rape of white woman.” I immediately acted and had this changed. But the idea that a law enforcement organization in 1982 saw nothing wrong with this, over 120 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, shows there was and has been system legal problems.
What is often forgotten is that thousands upon thousands, millions, of American people have worked tirelessly to CHANGE such inequalities in the legal and justice system. The fraction of abusers are the ones who get all of the attention and the endless efforts by millions in the law enforcement and legal system over the years, to ensure Equality Under Law, is ignored.
There is no question that there are factual problems in racial disparity in parts of law enforcement and parts of USA society. But those are parts, not the entire USA nation, not every person, not every police officer, not every organization, not every business, not every government organization.
There is a very big difference between the “#BlackLivesMatter” hashtag on Twitter began in 2013 to stand in solidarity with those rejecting those instances of abuse and racial disparity and the official Black Lives Matter Network organization, with a number of leaders promoting Marxism, anti-capitalism, and other values. The BLM Network and some of those involved in some protests have conflated the issue of law enforcement reform and justice with an anarchistic goal to overtake, undermine, and overthrow the institutions in the USA. These are very different objectives.
It is also obvious that Anarchist and Communist disruptors have sought to latch onto BLM protests to further their divisive campaign against law, democracy, and human rights, as their only real goal is to disrupt – to leverage conflicts for insurrection. To those legitimately concerned about the core mission of law enforcement reform that was the nexus of the initial BLM hashtag protests, you have an obligation to chase away saboteurs of your demonstrations.
That’s right. CHASE them away. Make it clear they are not speaking for you. And CHASE away the advocates of violence and “violent revolution.” Make it clear they are not speaking for you either. It is very common for the Anarchist and Communist to find any discontent to use for disruption. R.E.A.L. recalls an event we had in challenging Iran on a scheduled stoning of a woman, where Communist disruptors showed up. What did we do? We chased them away. This is what you HAVE to do. They are not your allies. They are not there to help you. They are not advocates for equality. Their only goal is disruption to aid them in keeping us from reaching actual progress, and advocates for violence are there to satiate their hate and lust for violence against their fellow human beings.
If you cannot CHASE the Anarchist, Communist, and advocates for violence away, then follow Dr. Martin King, Jr.’s example and lead with your feet. WALK AWAY. Do not let your legitimate issue get hijacked by disruptors and criminals. Manage your message.
To those being swayed by the Anarchist, Communist, and Violence advocates, the facts remain that the USA is and has made very significant changes on EQUALITY through our history. The change in equality may not work at the speed and pace that we want. But we can continue to get it to work. A key factor is to stop taking steps backwards, by allowing advocates of violence, hate, and insurrection to manage the message for equality, because they are NOT equality advocates.
The reality is, and Thank God for it, you do not live in the USA of my childhood, or even the USA where I was a young man. You simply do not. It is a fact. You do not have to be assaulted with signs that designate only certain racial clientele are allowed to go into restaurants, hotels, bars. You do not see the obscenity of separate drinking fountains and restrooms. The idea that your race decides your future has increasingly been a thing of the past, with people of all races leading major USA business, governments, law enforcement, and other leadership organizations. This is absolutely NOT the USA of my childhood, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. marching in the street for a basic Civil Rights Act. USA has gone from having black men protest in front of the White House to black men running the White House. The USA has many, many serious problems in growing to meet its obligation of equal rights for all of its people. But let us not deceive ourselves, the USA is NOT the nation where Lincoln had to fight for the Emancipation Proclamation, to end slavery, the USA is NOT the 1960s and 1970s.
We must continue to find HOPE in the long campaign for equality, by remembering that progress has indeed been achieved. That progress has been achieved largely by changing hearts and minds. But it has always focused on EQUALITY… not on campaigns believing that one part of American people matter or are more deserving than another.
Because let us also be clear, there are advocates who do not want the American people to remember that progress has been made or that hope should exist. There are advocates whose single goal is to promote violent revolution and to advocate violence against others, no matter what the cost, and no matter which innocents suffer, even children. These are not advocates for equality, and equality is the furthest thing from their mind. There are advocates for violence who are abusing the legitimate concerns of black lives threatened in instances of police abuse. There are advocates for violences whose only real goal is insurrection and power for themselves. The only “rights” they are concerned about are those that help them profit in power. Such rogues are a distraction in the long campaign for human equality.
The racist separatists and racial nationalists also seek to take advantage of USA division.
For decades, people of conscience have worked to reject and denounce the anti-equality views of white nationalist and white supremacist movements, which themselves had come to realize that they represented minority, “dissident” movements. But which white racist movements have gained increasing influence in the past four years, in no small part, due to political activist media figures giving very small minor activities an outrageously overwhelming media coverage. As with all racist groups, it is the responsibility of people of conscience to challenge and protest them. But political media have worked to link them with legitimate political ideologies, and give them undue credibility. One white nationalist group, Occidental Dissent, which R.E.A.L. has protested and sought to urge change has recently found mockery of equality in a recent commentary, stating: “As the evil oppressors of blacks, the only way to bring about true equality and to establish a just society is to treat White people differently than black people. White people have to be punished for their unwitting sins and the sins of their ancestors.” There is a finite voice promoting equality to challenge such confused vision of white nationalists, because the focus on EQUALITY itself is missing from much of today’s discussion and too much political activism, which focuses on positioning for power and influence, rather than an outstretched hand in genuine equality and compassion.
The National of Islam (NOI)’s Louis Farrakhan has long sought segregationist and black nationalist goals, with a call for black supremacism, with the belief that only black individuals are even actual human beings, and the people of other races are “grafted creatures” created by evil scientist Yakub. R.E.A.L. has regularly challenged the NOI and Louis Farrkhan on this. But how can we expect followers and advocates of this ideology to promote human rights, when they literally don’t recognize the existence of others as actual “human” beings? Not all black nationalist groups are as visible and documented, but let us be clear, such segregationists and supremacists are not advocates for Equality.
Separatists and Nationalists have a lot in common.
The main common cause is their REJECTION of Equality. They have no desire to be “equal” in a shared cohesive society. They seek to use conflicts and abusive circumstances to actually turn the public against the very idea of equality itself.
Equality is NOT the Zero-Sum Equality that the racial nationalists and separatists seek to promote. The deceivers want to convince you that division is necessary due to an imaginary lack. The deceivers want to mislead you to believe that the only way you can get a larger slice of the “pie,” is to take someone else’s “pie.” The deceivers want you to believe that equality can only exist when you oppress, and especially violente oppress others not like you. These are the rogue arguments that have nothing to do with equality and nothing to do with reality. The only goal of these arguments are to divide and spread hate and violence. The deceivers believe they can manipulate people to fight among themselves sufficiently, so that they can gain power of their own.
The truth is that in our massive nation and massive global society there is room for everyone, especially there is room for everyone WORKING TOGETHER. We do not have to choose “gridlock” over racial equality. The economic justice that is also sought can be lifting all ships together with improved overall economic conditions, not by seeking to take from others. We can and have found a nation and world with generosity, kindness, mercy, and respect… when those are the values we seek – and we give back.
Equality is about PEOPLE power, not about Privilege, not about being told WHAT to think and WHAT to do. As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, written by people of all different ethnicities and races around the world, we have an innate right to “equality” simply because we are human beings. We keep that state of equality through “reason and conscience” and by acting “towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
In a cohesive society, that commitment to Equality requires both protection and responsibility. It is not enough only to expect Equality in protection under the law. We must also expect Equality in responsibility under the law. The deceivers, separatists, and insurrectionists want to convince us that we can have a society where law only protects the identity group that they manipulate. They want some to believe that they can have privilege to do what with want with impunity, a false form of equality under law, where there is no responsibility. But that deception is not for the rational mind. We must never forget that there are ethical mathematics as there are in practical mathematics. Two wrongs never make a right. As we know that such ethical mathematics are true, so we must also recognize that we can not have protection under law, without responsibility under law. It is two-tier justice that we already reject. Giving privilege a different label does not somehow make it equality.
Equality is Equality. For Everyone. Equally.
Equality remains an ongoing work in progress, as we are all born free and equal in dignity and rights. Now the hard work is to build a society that continues to respect such universal human rights. There will always be rogues who seek to rationalize that equality is not a desirable goal. They will seek to claim that human equality is about an attack on financial systems, safety, or there will be those who seek to claim that human equality undermines their own view of supremacism in their identity group.
Equality will ultimately not be denied. Despite the fevered passions of the anti-equality advocates, seeking to draw up separatism, their own nations, and legalism to stop equality, the flood of human equality will continue to reach all shores.
The forces of violence, inequality, separatism, segregationism, and racial nationalism are advocates who seek to imitate failures from the past. Those in the past ultimately found these failures would not work. So it will be in the future. As we must find a new path from the desolate night of violence, so we must also find a new path from the desert and wastelands of inequality, segregationism, and rational nationalism. The future of progress leads to advocates of nonviolence, equality, cohesion, dignity, and mercy. We can find our way to the future with an ethical compass of Equality, Mercy, Dignity, and Nonviolence. The future waits for us to find the path of progress and hope by looking for values that will bring us together, not bitterly divide us apart.
Too many are focused on the voice of privilege and identity, but not on the concept of Equality For ALL. The scales must be balanced by our restraint, mercy, and empathy. We do not work to build the healing grasp of Equality in hearts and minds with an Upraised Fist, but rather we must offer an Outstretched Hand. That is how we build the trust for a new age. It has been done. It can be done. Let us find ways to build solidarity on the multitude of issues where our common needs outweigh our minor differences to find campaigners for our shared Vision of Equality. The campaign for Equality will not lead itself. Equality needs drum-majors across the land. We need to find ways to be voices in Equality for the 21st century, when the voices of violence, inequality, and division believe they have won. It is NOT too late.
“It is always the right time to do what is right.”
Let us also find creative ways to bring USA and our society together.
USA needs a moment of healing that can bring it together. In addition to July 4th and June 19, perhaps the USA can refocus a common goal, using January 1 as a new U.S. national holiday. We have had a long celebration of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. But let us also consider focusing on that rededicated January 1 – not only as New Year’s Day, but more importantly as “Equality Day,” and the birth of a new nation, where all people’s right to be equal as fellow human beings is remembered and revered.
Let us all be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
If we consistently recognized terrorism as an attack on our shared universal human rights, our campaigns against acts of terror and terrorist’s extremist ideology could have more productive priorities. In recognizing victims and demonizing terrorist criminals, the human rights argument is too quickly lost. Law enforcement, spying, and military solutions are not the only solutions to address terror.
We need a human rights-based approach to rejection of terrorist acts and anti-human rights extremist views; we must recognize such terrorist acts and ideologiesas an assault against the rights, dignity, and security of all fellow human beings.
Terrorism is an attack on ALL.
There are too many individuals who might passively agree with this, but fail to embrace this as a truth, based on our shared universal human rights. The most important campaign to challenge terror begins with recognizing that our fellow human beings truly deserve shared human rights, dignity, equality, pluralism, privacy, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, religious freedom, and security, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) – for every individual human being.
When we accept such universal human rights, the tribalist views that some anti-rights extremism is “necessary,” “worthy,” or “deserved,” loses all credibility. We cannot simply challenge terror ideologies and acts only by those who are different from us. We must challenge terror and the extremist views behind such terror from every identity group, nationality, political or religious claim, and ideology.
Rejecting terrorism is more than recognizing that “some people did something.” Combatting terrorism is more than law enforcement, military, and spy agencies taking action. To challenge terrorism, we must commit to a human rights-based approach that consistently challenges the specific ideologies and the acts of terrorism that assault our fellow human beings. We must campaign for our fellow human beings to reject such anti-human rights ideologies, and we must call to our fellow human beings to reject such hate and violence.
Hate and Violence are Not the Answer.
On April 16, 1963, the African-American human rights leader and pastor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously spoke of the common cause in rejecting injustice, written from the Birmingham, Alabama jail: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The U.S.A. and the world miss the leadership of this great human rights martyr. But even in his death, nearly five years later on April 4, 1968, we were taught a lesson, as Dr. King was assassinated during a wave of political violence. Dr. King campaigned for nonviolence. The violence of political terror ended his life. It was a wake-up call for the American public to reject the terror of political violence. Generations of Americans still need to learn this lesson.
In the U.S.A., Americans rightly express sorrow, grief, and continued outrage at the mass-murder terrorism on 9/11/2001, and we continue to grieve for the victims and families of that attack. We also must recognize that the U.S.A. had been experiencing political violence terror attacks for a long time prior to the 9/11 attacks across the nation, including the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have seen and continue to see such terror attacks around the world. We must be consistent in our outrage, condemnation, and use of a human rights-based approach to challenging such terror acts and ideologies. Having given his life for nonviolence in human rights, surely we can learn from Dr. King’s sacrifice.
We need leadership that learns from Dr. King’s message.
A terrorist attack anywhere is a terror attack on our fellow human beings everywhere.
Let us START with this foundation.
Not just as words of compassion, but as real truth.
There is no “good” terrorism. There is no “acceptable” terrorism. There is no “deserving” terrorism. There is no “righteous” terrorism. None. Not anywhere. Not to anyone.
Historical fact shows this as truth.
Those who may have supported the acts of Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban, Al-Shabab, Boko Haram, must also face the factual truth of how such terrorist extremism has been attack on all people, including many, many Muslims around the world.
Those who may have supported the acts of other religious extremists, who claimed rationale on their twisted views of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, must also face the factual truth that such terrorist extremists are responsible for murder and crimes against others of their groups and fellow human beings.
Those who may have supported the acts of white supremacist and Nazi terror must also face the factual truth of how such terrorists have murdered white children, infants, women, elderly, and helpless individuals of every type.
Those who may have supported black nationalist terror must also face the factual truth of how such terrorists have murdered fellow black human beings, left their families with widows, and their children as orphans.
Those who may have supported the acts of Anarchist and Communist terror must also face the factual truth of how such terrorists have led to the death of innocent people, to the death and mutilitation of people of color, to those struggling in poverty, and those who were not the “enemies” they claimed justification for violence.
And the list goes on and on.
Let us uncategorically reject the concept that “terror” can be a force for “good” and for “justice.” Surely, we have seen enough death, destruction, and attacks on fellow human beings’ human rights and dignity to know this is wrong.
But a human rights approach needs more than simply knowing than terrorism is wrong. We need to build an approach to fighting terror among ALL OF US – where we recognize, without exception – that terror is an attack on ALL. Wrong is wrong.
It is natural to be repulsed and angered at terrorist criminals in destroying lives, homes, and property. But to seek lasting progress against terror, our commitment to human rights, equality, freedom, security, and privacy, requires that we prioritize developing a human rights-based approach to challenging terror.
NOT with an upraised fist, but with an outstretched hand.
This is most difficult part. Surely, we want our fellow human beings safe and criminals brought to justice. But law enforcement tactics are only the smallest step. We need to find common cause in universal human rights and pluralism to reject all ideologies of terror. Some regress to hate of those who gone down the dark path to extremist ideologies. But campaigns of hate do not move us one inch closer to stopping terrorism or the ideologies of terror. We need to offer a human rights-based alternative.
We would naturally want people to leave a life of crime, to abandon support for criminal gangs, to rejoin a public that depends on shared trust of one another. So we must also naturally call for those supporting extremist terror ideologies to leave a life that opposes our shared human rights, and join us in the family of human beings that respect such shared rights and dignity. This is the long-term work, the most difficult work, the real challenge to effectively addressing and campaigning against terror and political violence.
Our military, spy, law enforcement tactics do not do this long-term, substantive work; at best they are a short-term patch in an emergency situation. They are only short-term tactics, but too many have chosen to institutionalize these tactics against terror, rather than do the difficult strategic work to campaign for human rights change on terror. Even then, some of the military, spy, police tactics (when used against human rights) can be abused and can become counterproductive. It has become so common in some cases, that some in the public no longer bother to be outraged.
We will never end terror with tactics of torture, intrusive spying, undermining democracy, and ending free expression and debate. We must not give ideologies of terror a victory by abandoning the human rights we must use as a counterargument to terrorism’s extremism. We cannot expect short-term tactics to do the job of long-term strategy. We cannot abandon human rights and democratic values, in the misguided belief that “the ends justifies the means” will somehow keep our fellow human beings “safe.”
If we have learned anything on terror, we have learned there is no “safe harbor” from the extremist terror that lives in the minds of troubled individuals. There are not enough barriers, not enough security measures, not enough police, not enough military, not enough spies, to stop terror. When we abandon our human rights values in misguided belief we will then be “safe,” we only embolden and provide justification to extremist ideologies used to rationalize terrorism. We offer no justice by jackboot, and no public protection through police state tactics.
Dr. King taught that we cannot promote justice through injustice ourselves, and that we cannot end violence through violence ourselves. If he were alive, he would tell us also that we cannot end anti-human rights terrorism by anti-human rights tactics ourselves. Our world misses his public voice of conscience. But the private voice of our own conscience speaks to us in every one of our own lives and minds. We must listen to our conscience.
We know that anti-human rights tactics against terror can undermine credibility to challenge terrorism, when dependent on violence, abandonment of values, and corruption.
An outstretched hand is not an upraised fist. We don’t need to be told the direction that the upraised fist will continue to take our human societies. We have centuries and centuries of recorded history on the lessons of those tactics. Those promoting terrorism / political violence have sought to continue the tactics of the upraised fist.
We have seen the upraised fist on the 9/11 terror attacks. We have seen the upraised fist in terror attacks around the world by extremists. We have seen the upraised fist in the terror of political violence in streets and assassinations of leaders around the world, even of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet the disgrace of the upraised fist still does not shame and embarrass many anger activists, whose fevered illusions have rationalized that “this time” the violence against our fellow human beings will somehow be justified, and that “this time” such “ends justifies the means.” We know that there is no call to the “ends justifies the means” in our Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the laws of democratic nations, and in the conscience of human beings who seek equality and dignity for one another.
We also have painful history of corrupted organizations, who believed that they could challenge terror by becoming like the terrorists themselves, by believing that they were “above the law,” We have sadly seen those that believed they had the power and mandate to attack the human rights of those they designated as “enemies” at their whim. And where does this lead us? Where does this end? To those blinded by power over others, in the interests of “security,” where is the ability to know when they have gone “too far”? To those blinded by a cause that the “ends justifies the means,” the only ones they are deceiving are themselves. Those individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to universal human rights understand the most basic ethical mathematics that wrong is wrong. Two wrongs never equal a “right.”
When we allow ourselves to segment into tribal and identity groups on terrorism, we are consciously blinded to understanding the global problem of terror. Much of the major news media no longer reports on global terror as a problem, especially when the terror takes place in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Somalia, etc. Imagine if the Western news media had a level of outrage regarding mass murder of fellow human beings in such nations, that it reserves only for fevered political debate or the latest comment by a celebrity figure. Terrorism is wrong regardless of your race, nationality, religion, ethnicity, or ethnic group.
In 2018, the Taliban terror group was responsible for 1,751 civilian casualties in 2018 in Afghanistan, according to a February 24, 2019 report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The tens of thousands of Afghanistan civilians, overwhelmingly fellow Muslims, slaughtered by the Taliban over the past 10-20 years should stagger the conscience of the world. Yet the Western media continue to refer to such Taliban terrorists as “militants,” and bipartisan political figures seek to gain their favor, without a commitment on our shared universal human rights. Challenge to terror groups and ideologies must begin with a human rights-based called for change.
But less than a year before this report (during 2018), we learned of a U.S. law enforcement organization funding an advocate of the Taliban terror group. In the Federal U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida, on March 26, 2018, the FBI testified in federal court about one of their paid informants, Mr. Seddique Mateen (Case 6:17-cr-00018-PGB-KRS). FBI Special Agent Juvenal Martin testified in federal court that Mr. Mateen was a paid FBI informant for 11 years; Mr. Mateen was also an active and aggressive promoter of the Taliban terror group, internationally promoting videos in support of the Afghanistan Taliban terrorists, who he considered his “warrior brothers.” Mr. Mateen’s activities and his role as a paid FBI informant became publicly known in court, as a result of ongoing public investigations related to his son, Omar Mateen. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen led an ISIS-inspired terror attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 and injuring 53 Americans. During the March 2018 Orlando federal court proceedings, we also learned that the FBI sought to recruit Omar Mateen as a paid informant.
No one was fired. No one was criticized. No one was held accountable. The story was buried in the U.S. media, and outside of Orlando, most Americans never heard about it. It may be troubling to discover many might not care, and too many don’t see anything wrong with this.
The “ends justifies the means” simply does not work in long-term efforts to challenge terrorism. The path towards the “ends justifies the means” ultimately becomes the path of regret and disgrace.
Double standards are no standards.
We cannot effectively challenge terrorism and the ideological extremism behind terrorism without consistent human rights-based standards.
Only a human-rights based strategy to challenging terrorism can support the consistent values that we need that “A terrorist attack anywhere is a terror attack on our fellow human beings everywhere.”
As Dr. King stated, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
The world has invested endless billions and billions of dollars and effort into the military, spy, and law enforcement tactics to counter terrorism.
It is time to make a new national and international commitment to finding shared universal human rights standards of common ground, consistency, and credibility for fellow human beings to challenge the ideologies and the acts of terrorism, which are attacks on all of us.
DTRA and Nukes. U.S. Army DTRA LTC James Gifford, Ph.D. starts misinformation on modern nuclear weapons with admiring: “an amazingly cool nuclear weapons firecloud….” as he goes on and on about small kiloton nuclear weapons in August 2022, as if we were living in a world without the former USSR/Russia nuclear threats or PRC nuclear threats
Government and Standards of Virtue. Standards are essential to be defined, documented, and enforced for the moral operations of large organizations. For example, in a hospital, if you didn’t have consistent quality and patient care standards, and you went in to the hospital for a minor operation, you would be at mortal risk at every turn. Just having a good surgeon would not be enough. The nurse could give you the wrong medication, treatment, or guide you to the wrong surgery. The anesthesiologist could give you the wrong anesthetic or not enough. At every stage, from hospital admissions to hospital sanitation, your vulnerable life could be endangered constantly, without basic standards, quality controls, and oversight. We understand this, and when standards slip, we are rightly outraged and demand change. We don’t have to be members of the board of the hospital to do so. We respect human life and human safety that much as a basic shared more that we will demand this, protest for this, appeal for this, even for private hospitals that we have limited actual “power” over. In the modern world, we expect this as part of normal medical life and practice, as imperfect as it may be. You have to be able to trust them.
But then in our representative federal government of 3 million people about the size of Kansas with massive power over others, we decide that “Virtuous Leaders,” not virtuous standards, are sufficient. Quality controls, standards of operations, oversight, are mostly a shrug to the citizenry, who believe that this is all too complicated for the infantilized citizenry to demand, and “father/mother” government knows best, and we should simply mind our business. But this is a massive hypocrisy in public view of power, how power should be used, and the limitations of power. It is unrealistic to expect the handful of “virtuous leaders” to police massive government infrastructures without quality controls, without standards, without meaningful oversight, and most importantly without value leadership. We expect a trickle-down theory (that would embarrass the most committed advocates of trickle-down theory) from the “Virtuous Leader” to the millions and millions of non-elected representatives. It is simply not responsible or adult civic behavior. It is simply delusion to believe this will happen. And sadly and predictably, of course, it does not. A value-free, standards-free massive organization, whether it a hospital or any other massive organization, is simply an accident waiting to happen.
A virtuous leader, whether it is a hospital chief of staff or a government POTUS, is simply not even in the universe of “enough.” It is not adult to think that it would be, and in fact, we really do have the common sense to know better than this. But we stubbornly believe the virtuous man/woman leader approach works for a government with millions of individual workers.
We choose a different approach for government versus the hospital. At some point, however cognitive dissonance and denial catches up with you and you see things and hear things that you can’t unsee and unhear. Whether it is a point at a relationship with a loved one or a relationship with your government, you find breaking points at which “blissful ignorance” or denial will no longer work for you as a coping mechanism.
Relationship breaking points are easy to see: “I don’t love you.” “I’m not attracted to you.” These are pretty obvious to assess. You know when you are done. Government relationship breaking points are a bit more sophisticated. But assuming (BIG assumption) we share a common set mores and standards for human life, that becomes an easier breaking point to assess. You can see the fractures way way way before that. But when your government takes actual glee in the plan to murder others, responsible adults should reassess their government’s values and quality standards.
I didn’t reach this conclusion easily. I have had a lot of breaking points, and too many hard facts and documents, as well as first hand experience, I cannot deny. .As a lifelong advocate for the USA government, it has been tough and painful to let go of my cognitive dissonance and the excuses that I have made for decades and decades… “but you need to understand the context” I would start. Or “it is not as bad as it sounds” I would opine. But the only one I was fooling was myself. Or God forbid, “I know this is horrible, but they are trying to secure the common good.” I couldn’t even believe this myself, even if the words came out of my mouth. I knew it was a lie. But as I state, at some point you find breaking points. Things you cannot deny anymore. Things you can’t pretend anymore.
There have been so many for me, I could/should write a book. But I will only mention a few, and briefly because they disgust me. And it is entirely possible that they are only “breaking points” or me and others would laugh, wave them away, which is even more troubling. But if we respect human life, not a real “nuance” of a value, we need to ask questions.
The Suicide Plot Against Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Long before his assassination on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray, someone else wanted him dead. The USA Federal Government, specifically J. Edgar Hoover. In 2014, the archives of unredacted reports were released of an FBI Intelligence plot to threaten and intimidate Reverend King to commit suicide came out, with a letter dripping with venomous hate and attempting to blackmail him if he didn’t kill himself became publicly released. The criminal J. Edgar Hoover’s name remains on FBI Headquarters.
Hiring Terrorists. In 2016, Florida faced a terrible terrorist attack at the Pulse nightclub, where 49 Americans were slaughtered, and 53 wounded. The head of the FBI said he was “looking into” the terrorist, Omar Mateen. But in 2018, court records showed that his FBI was looking to HIRE the terrorist Omar Mateen before the attack. They didn’t just “know” him; they were looking to “recruit” him. Also in 2018, we learned that his father, who we knew was a long-time advocate for the Taliban terrorist group, was being paid by the FBI for 11 years.
The Terrorist Cop is Allowed to Threat Millions of Lives. Like many major cities, DC has a massive subway system with millions of riders, and this one is largely underground. with millions of individual workers. The riders did not know that police officer Nicholas Young, wearing a badge to enforce the law for these vulnerable subway riders, was secretly plotting with ISIS, and even went to foreign countries for terror training. The USA Government and the FBI knew for YEARS. They knew about his assault weapons practice, his efforts with ISIS, and they just left him there, as millions of passengers were endangered daily. Eventually they got around to arresting him in August 2016. But it was more than incompetence, rather a value structure, where human life is expendable, when the ends justify the means.
Court OKs Threats to Murder Family by Government. In doing research on public files about threat of a terrorist plan in Missouri, in 2017, I looked at the public court records on a case involving Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. Hester is a troubled, screwed-up guy. He is definitely trouble. I was doing background on what a bad guy he was for a summary of the counterterror case for a public blog, when I discovered that the FBI threatened to knife his family. In reading the court complaint on Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr., I learned that the FBI undercover agent in the “sting plot” to convince this unbalanced individual to get involved in a fake terror plot: “For emphasis and for mitigating the security threat of HESTER, UC-2 displayed a knife and reminded HESTER that UC-2 knew where HESTER and his family lived among other forceful words.” What type of government threatens to knife someone’s family if they don’t incriminate themselves the way that the government wants them to? Is that “law enforcement”? Because maybe in fascist countries. But here? And the U.S. Federal Court saw nothing wrong with this and imprisoned Hester. Hester is a bad and unbalanced person. But when courts think it is OK that “law enforcement” (sic) can threaten to knife someone’s family to get an arrest, when is next? When values only matter to the “elected leader,” and values are not part of your organization’s operations, this becomes “normal.”
FBI Removes “Law Enforcement” from Mission Statement. In 2018, I was writing to urge the FBI to follow not only its legislative history and founding legal authority for its activities. For emphasis, I went to the FBI mission statement to make a point. To my great surprise, it had been changed. The term “law enforcement” had been removed. I tried to figure out what happened. Luckily the Internet has something called the Wayback Machine, where you can see old copies of websites. So I went back to snapshots of the Mission website to see that it had been changed in July 2017. Do you remember any news reports on this? Any announcements? This is the challenge with the belief in the virtuous leader model, not the values of an organization.No one in public knew, apparently no one in government leadership cared, as quality control, standards, and values were never the priority. We trusted that our “virtuous leaders” would handle things.
March 2024 – Calls for Murder. This was first-hand experience. I was at an event at a public venue, where business leaders were lauding new plans (also discussed publicly on the Internet in general terms I later learned) to use ways to take over the Internet-based controls of a Tesla automobile and use Government “cybersecurity” (anything but) as a weapon of war to take over the Tesla and crash the car and kill those inside. The corporate and Government leaders found this entertaining and got a great laugh out of this. The “entertaining” concept of assassination, using what is called in “industry” as Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) – by automobile was robustly and publicly discussed. It was even recorded, although I since learned that the public posted version of these discussions, left this out. They had been practicing with test dummies in automobiles, not to make them safer, but to find ways for the Government to take over the controls of such automobiles to make them more DEADLY. They laughed and laughed. The corporate leader believes they should more publicly and unashamedly promote “skill sets” to develop such assassination by OCO computers as part of corporate sales strategy. They want to believe Murder, Inc. has nothing on them. Except these guys are above the law, because when the Government supports it, it is “legal” murder. A new advocate for this murder by computer came from the U.S. Navy, where as he puts to the public, they “are in the killing business.” This is an individual who appears in the media and at seminars to promote this thinking. He likes this company because he knew they really understand that, and had no inconvenient moral qualms over it. Is that how Americans view their “defense organizations” as a “killing business”? Do any of us remember voting for the USA to “be in the killing business?” One would think that was important enough to ask the voters. Is that our shared mores to have organizations in our “defense” focus on proactive murder of others? Because when that starts, where does that end? Are those the values and standards we agree with as a people, as our “virtuous leaders” either deliberately or through incompetence allow the rest of the massive organization to basically do whatever they want?
I realize some may want to dismiss these concerns as “political,” a convenient label to silence any inconvenient questions. It is not. It is not about “politics,” rather it is about “responsibility” and “accountability.” How far down this path are the American people willing to go? Among all of the important topics of the day, this one gets no attention, and no apparent concern from the institutional human rights community.
It is not a Zero-Sum argument that we can only choose: (a) Support of the Government, or (b) Support of Values of Virtue. We need to reject that as a “choice.” We can choose BOTH and call for a new approach to ensuring ethical virtue is built into the Government, not merely at the highest level, but at EVERY level, with accountability and responsibility at EVERY level as well. That is the future responsible adults must strive towards.
October 7 – Remembering the Victims of October 7, 2023 Terrorist Attack on Israel
Idan Shtivi, 28 Ein Hayam Presumed kidnapped, on October 7, 2024 his family was informed that he was killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas.
Alexander Lobanov, 32 Ashkelon Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7. On August 31, the IDF retrieved his body from Gaza
Master sergeant Ori Danino, 24 Jerusalem Non-commissioned officer in the 202nd Battalion, Paratrooper Brigade, kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7. On August 31, the IDF retrieved his body from Gaza
Almog Sarusi, 26 Ra’anana Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7. On August 31, the IDF retrieved his body from Gaza
Eden Yerushalmi, 24 Tel Aviv Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7. On August 31, the IDF retrieved her body from Gaza
Carmel Gat, 39 Be’eri Kidnapped from her home on October 7. On August 31, the IDF retrieved her body from Gaza
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23 Jerusalem Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7. On August 31, the IDF retrieved his body from Gaza
Alexander Dancyg, 75 Nir Oz Kidnapped from his home on October 7. Was killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on July 22, 2024. On August 20, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Yagev Buchshtab, 35 Nirim Kidnapped from his home on October 7 with his wife Rimon who was released in November. Was killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on July 22, 2024. On August 20, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Chaim Peri, 80 Nir Oz Kidnapped from his home, was killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on June 3, 2024. On August 20, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Yoram Metzger, 80 Nir Oz Kidnapped from his home with his wife Tamar Metzger, who was freed from Hamas captivity, was killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on June 3, 2024. On August 20, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Nadav Popplewell, 51 Nirim Kidnapped from his home, was killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on June 3, 2024. On August 20, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Avraham Munder, 79 Nir Oz Kidnapped from his home together with this wife Ruth, daughter Keren and grandson Ohad who were released in November. Was killed while being held by Hamas. On August 20, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Ravid Katz, 51 Nir Oz Member of the community’s security squad, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on November 11. On July 25, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Staff Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, 20 Lehavim Infantry fighter, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on November 28, 2023. On July 25, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Sgt. Kiril Brodski, 19 Ramat Gan Infantry fighter, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on November 28, 2023. On July 25, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Maya Goren, 56 Nir Oz Kidnapped from her home on October 7. Killed while being held by Hamas. Her family was informed of her death on December 1. On July 25, 2024 the IDF found her body in Gaza
Oren Goldin, 33 Nir Yitzhak Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on November 9. On July 25, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Sgt. Maj. Mhamad El Atrash, 39 Sa’wa IDF veteran and a tracker in the IDF’s Gaza division, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on June 24, 2024
Amiram Cooper, 84 Nir Oz Kidnapped from his home with his wife Nurit Cooper, who was freed from Hamas captivity, was killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on June 3, 2024
Dolev Yahoud, 35 Nir Oz Killed on October 7
Orión Hernández Rado, 30 Mexico Killed on October 7 at the outdoor rave near Re’im and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. On May 23, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Hanan Yablonka, 42 Tel Aviv Killed on October 7 at the outdoor rave near Re’im and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. On May 23, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Michel Nisenbaum, 59 Sderot Killed on October 7 next to Mefalsim and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. On May 23, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Ron Binyamin, 52 Rehovot Killed on October 7 while riding his bicycle from Rehovot and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. On May 17, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Sudthisak Rinthalak Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on May 17, 2024
Sonthaya Oakkharasri Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on May 17, 2024
Itzhak Gelerenter, 53 Irus Killed on October 7 at the outdoor rave near Re’im and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. On May 17, 2024 the IDF found his body in Gaza
Amit Buskila, 28 Ashdod Killed on October 7 at the outdoor rave near Re’im and her body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. On May 17, 2024 the IDF found her body in Gaza
Shani Louk, 22 Tel Aviv Killed on October 7 at the outdoor rave near Re’im and her body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. On May 17, 2024 the IDF found her body in Gaza
Lior Rudaeff, 61 Nir Yitzhak Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas
Wolderaphael (Tiger) Hagos Berhe, 40 Eritrea Asylum seekers, killed in Sderot on October 7
Dror Or, 48 Be’eri Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas
Elyakim Libman, 24 Kiryat Arba Has been murdered on October 7, after rescuing the wounded at the outdoor rave near Re’im. He was considered as a hostage until May 3, 2024, when it was reported that his body was found in Israel
Elad Katzir, 47 Nir Oz Kidnapped from his home by Hamas on October 7, was killed while being held by Hamas. On April 5, the IDF found his body in Gaza
Uriel Baruch, 35 Giv’on Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im. On March 27, 2024, his family was informed that he was kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas.
Captain Daniel Perez, 22 Yad Binyamin 7th Division, 77th Battalion fighter, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on March 17, 2024
Staff sergeant Itay Hen, 19 Netanya 75th Battalion, 7th Division fighter, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on March 12, 2024
Sergeant Oz Daniel, 19 Kfar Sava Givati Brigade reconnaissance unit fighter, 7th Division, 77th Battalion fighter, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on February 25, 2024
Yair Yaakov, 59 Nir Oz Presumed kidnapped, on February 15, 2024 his family was informed that he was killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas.
Ran Gvili, 24 Meitar Yasam patrol unit officer, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on January 30, 2024
sergeant Shay Levinson, 19 Giv’at Avni 7th Division, 77th Battalion fighter, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on January 21, 2024
Itay Svirsky, 38 Tel Aviv Kidnapped while visiting his family in Kibbutz Be’eri. Was killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on January 16, 2024
Yossi Sharabi, 51 Be’eri Kidnapped from his home on October 7, was killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on January 16, 2024
Tamir Adar, 38 Nir Oz Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas
Ilan Weiss, 56 Be’eri Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas
Judy Weinstein-Haggai, 70 Nir Oz Presumed kidnapped, on December 28 her family was informed that she was killed on October 7 and her body was taken to Gaza by Hamas
Gad Haggai, 73 Nir Oz Presumed kidnapped, on December 12 his family was informed that he was killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas
Inbar Haiman, 27 Haifa Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7, was killed while being held by Hamas. Her family was informed of her death on December 16
Alon Lulu Shamriz, 26 Kfar Azza Kidnapped from his home. On December 15, the IDF troops mistakenly opened fire and killed him during battle
Samer Fuad El-Talalka, 22 Hura Kidnapped from kibbutz Nir Am. On December 15, the IDF troops mistakenly opened fire and killed him during battle
Yotam Haim, 28 Kfar Azza Kidnapped from his home. On December 15, the IDF troops mistakenly opened fire and killed him during battle
Elia Toledano, 27 Tel Aviv Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7. On December 14, the IDF found his body in Gaza
Tal Haimi, 41 Nir Yitzhak Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on December 13
Eden Zacharia, 28 Rishon Letzion Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7. On December 11, the IDF found her body in Gaza
Staff sergeant Haim Meir Eden, 20 Rehovot 13th Battalion, Golani Brigade fighter, Wounded in a battle on October 7, died of his wounds on December 9
Sahar Baruch, 24 Be’eri Kidnapped from his home on October 7. His family was informed by the IDF that he was killed on December 8 in an IDF rescue operation in the Gaza Strip – it is not clear if he was killed by Hamas or by IDF fire
Eitan Levy, 53 Bat Yam Taxi driver who encountered terrorists on the way to Be’eri, killed on October 7 at the outdoor rave near Re’im and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas
Dror Kaplun, 68 Be’eri Killed on October 7, though he was originally reported missing and his family was informed of his death on December 7 Na’amna Abu Rashad, one-day-old Abu Karinat S. Abu Rashad was nine months pregnant when she was shot by Hamas on October 7. Her daughter was born in an emergency surgery and died 14 hours later, on October 7
Jonatan Mordechai Samerano, 21 Tel Aviv Was at the outdoor rave near Re’im, fled to Kibbutz Be’eri and was kidnapped to Gaza. His family was informed of his death on December 3
Cpl. Noa Marciano, 19 Modi’in Observer in the 414th Regiment, Combat Intelligence Collection Corps, Kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. On November 19, the IDF found her body in Gaza
Ofra Keidar, 70 Be’eri Kidnapped from her home on October 7. Killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of her death on December 1
Colonel Asaf Hamami, 40 Kiryat Ono Commander of the Southern Brigade in the Gaza Division, killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on December 2, 2023
Guy Iluz, 26 Tel Aviv Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7. Killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on December 1
Eliyahu (Churchill) Margalit, 75 Nir Oz Kidnapped from his home on October 7, was killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on December 1
Ronen Engel, 55 Nir Oz Kidnapped from his home on October 7. Killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on December 1
Arye Zalmanovich, 86 Nir Oz Kidnapped from his home on October 7. Killed while being held by Hamas. His family was informed of his death on December 1
Ofir Tzarfati, 27 Kiryat Biyalik Kidnapped from the outdoor rave near Re’im on October 7. On November 30, the IDF found his body in Gaza
Aviv Atzili, 49 Nir Oz killed on October 7 defending his home, Kibbutz Nir Oz. His body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. His family was notified of his death on November 30, his partner Liat was released by Hamas on November 29 Chirkpan Diotaisong, 37 Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Setta Homsorn, 36 Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Krisorn Tomiyuma Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Tianachi Yudtongadi, 32 Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Duwa Sayan, 35 Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Tawachi Saytu Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Seriyut Pankitwanitchirn Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Patti Kiatisk, 35 Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Arnatit Kayson, 29 Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Chai Recsanun Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Guytum Gvarhuit Eritrea A refugee from Eritrea, killed in Sderot on October 7 Somchai Sayang, 24 Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Papuntnai Pongkrua Thailand Foreign worker from Thailand, killed near Gaza on October 7 Chi Zanhung, 47 China Foreign worker from China, killed in Sderot on October 7 Zishon Whon, 36 China Foreign worker from China, killed in Sderot on October 7 Dali Zoeo, 35 China Foreign worker from China, killed in Sderot on October 7
Sgt. Shaked Dahan, 19 Afula 7th Division, 77th Battalion fighter, Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas. The Israeli army announced his death on November 28, 2023. On August 28, 2024 the IDF Retrieved her body from Gaza
Sujith Nissanka, 48 Sri Lanka Caregiver in Be’eri
Shany Gabai, 25 Yokne’am Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Natalia Demidova, 39 Ofakim Killed in Ofakim on October 7
Or Taasa, 16 Netiv Ha’asara Killed at Zikim Beach
Noam Shai, 26 Kfar Tavor Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Captain (res.) Iftach Gorny, 51 Be’er Milka Member of the community’s security squad, fell in battle on October 7
Major Ido Israel Shani, 29 Ramat Gan Deputy Commander in the Nahal Brigade, fell in battle on October 7
Sgt. Ariel Ohana, 19 Revadim 890th Battalion, Paratroopers Brigade fighter, fell in battle on October 8
Staff Sgt. Amichay Yaacov Vanino, 22 Katzrin Officer in the Maglan Unit , fell in battle on October 7
Staff Sgt. Yogev Aharon, 20 Pardes Hannah 51st Battalion, Golani Brigade fighter, fell in battle on October 7
Major Raz Peretz, 24 Afula 51st Battalion, Golani Brigade fighter, fell in battle on October 7
Staff Sgt. Hallel Shmuel Saadon, 21 Ma’ale Michmash Officer in the the General Staff’s elite special-operations force, fell in battle in Kibbutz Sufa on October 7
Captain Hadar Kama, 24 Givat Shapira Officer in the the General Staff’s elite special-operations force, fell in battle on October 7
Staff Sgt. Yonatan Golan, 20 Yahud-Monoson 7th Division, 77th Battalion fighter, Fell in battle on October 7
Sgt. Ofir Testa, 21 Jerusalem 7th Division, 77th Battalion fighter, fell in battle on October 7
Dikla Arava, 51 Nahal Oz Killed on October 7
Staff Sgt. David Ratner, 20 Ashdod 13th Battalion, Golani Brigade fighter, fell in battle in October 7 Vladimir Jocob, 64 Ashkelon Killed in Ashkelon on October 7 Mohamed Barima, 47 Sderot A refugee from Darfur, living in Israel since 2008, killed in Sderot on October 7 Mark Mordechai Peretz, 51 Rishon Letzion Killed at Sa’ad Junction on October 7
Clemence Felix Mtenga, 22 Tanzania Farming student, was killed in kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7
Oleg Lifshitz, 61 Ashkelon Killed in Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha
Avia Hetzroni, 69 Be’eri Medic at Magen David Adom rescue service
Yanai Heler Hetzroni, 12 Be’eri
Liel Hetzroni, 12 Be’eri
Ayala Hetzroni Be’eri
Vivian Silver, 74 Be’eri Killed at her home
Amit Cohen, 25 Hod hasharon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yona Friker, 70 Be’eri
Sgt. Roni Eshel, 19 Tzur Yitzhak Observer in the 414th Battalion Combat Intelligence Collection Corps
Dafna Garcovich, 47 Kissufim
Ivan Illarramendi Saizar, 46 Kissufim Vitali Lugvinchneko, 34 Ashkelon Michael Moserkov, 69 Netivot Zohar Meiri, 55 Sderot Michael Abramov Sderot
Dmitri Sorokin, 51 Ashkelon Killed on his way home from Sderot Haim Ashraf, 68 Sderot
David Shalev, 75 Nir Oz
Tal Shalev, 54 Nir Oz
Meir Malka, 78 Sderot Killed at his home
Shlomo Alfasi, 52 Ashkelon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Daniel Braslavsky, 32 Kiryat Gat Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Karina Ella Davidov, 30 Kiryat Gat Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ram Shalom, 25 Giv’at Ze’ev Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sgt. Maj. Roi Moshe, 36 Ashkelon Deputy Squad Commander at the Be’er Sheba Fire and Rescue Services station Yonatan Zehavy, 10 Ashkelon Killed in Moshav Yakhini
Oudom Chan, 24 Cambodia Veterinary student, was killed in Kibbutz Karmia
Dor Malka, 29 Eilat Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shiran Ganon, 38 Bat Yam Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Odaya Swisa, 33 Sderot
Dolev Swisa, 34 Sderot
Daniel Asher Cohen, 32 Ramat Gan Deejayed under his stage name Nisha Acid, killed at the outdoor rave near Nirim
Neomi Shitrit Azulay, 52 Sderot Killed near her home
Raz Mizrachi, 23 Gedera Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Jonathan Seidman, 25 Tel Aviv Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Alon Verber, 26 Ra’anana Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lori Vardi, 24 Ra’anana Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Evgeni Postel, 25 Be’er Sheva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mordechai (Motti) Zoerman, 74 Haifa Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gal Danguri, 23 Beit Aryeh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ofek Revia, 23 Beit Aryeh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Nadav Bartel, 23 Beit Aryeh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yaniv Sarudi, 26 Ashdod Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ilan Lipovsky, 30 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Elia Shametz, 35 Haifa Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shaun Davitashvili, 25 Be’er Sheva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Or Haim Ben Hemo, 19 Rehovot Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ido Peretz, 23 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Limor Vaknin Parmoter, 49 Be’er Sheva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yuval Boyum, 21 Kfar Azza
Shalev Gal, 25 Ahuzat Barak Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shai Shalev, 50 Ahuzat Barak Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shani Amin, 18 Ashdod Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Nitzan Libstein, 19 Kfar Azza The son of Ofir Libstein, Head of the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council, who was also killed
Tamar Gutman, 27 Ben Nun Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Staff Sgt. Yam Glass, 20 Modi’in Maccabim-Reut Observer in the 414th Battalion Combat Intelligence Collection Corps
Noa Farage, 22 Tel Mond Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Simon Vigdergauz (Dubchenko), 21 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ben Ori, 31 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Dor Avitan, 26 Eilat Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sigal Itah, 27 Be’er Sheva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eden Naftali, 23 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sapir Bilmes, 24 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Karin Vernikov, 22 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Staff Sgt. (res.) Yehezkel (Hezi) Razilov, 30 Katzrin Was killed in a town near the Gaza border
Amitay Malihi, 20 Rosh Ha’ayin Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sharon Gordani, 25 Kidron Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shahar Ben Naim, 42 Tzur Moshe Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Abraham Gilad Tiberg, 24 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Orel Abuhatzeira, 25 Rosh Ha’ayin Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yuval Ben Yehuda, 26 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Nativ Maayan Nave, 60 Sderot
Moriah Or Swissa Givat Ze’ev Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Yaakov Solomon, 60 Giv’ati
Amram Alon Toledano, 54 Sderot
Shlomo Eliyah Alshich, 27 Bnei Brak Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yochai Ben Zekarya, 23 Netanya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Daniel Cohen, 23 Netanya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Avi Dadon, 44 Afula Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Nirel Zini, 31 Kfar Azza Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Dado Tsafir, 45 Ashkelon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Loreta Villarin Alacre, 49 Philippines Caregiver in Kibbutz Alumim from the Philippines
Angelyn Aguirre, 32 Philippines Caregiver in Kfar Azza from the Philippines
Anton Goryonov, 37 Safed Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Dor Hanan Shafir, 30 Modi’in Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Amit Cohen, 23 Meitar Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gabriel Yishay Barel, 22 Safed Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Celine Rachel Ben David Nagar, 32 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Guy Levi, 24 Neve Yamin Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ella Hamui, 26 Nir Yitzhak Was shot by Hamas terrorists and severely injured at the outdoor rave near Re’im. Died of her wounds on November 1
Dorit Wertheim (Bar Ilan) Kfar Azza
Aviv Wertheim, 57 Kfar Azza
Yigal Flash, 66 Kfar Azza
Sindi Flash, 67 Kfar Azza
Eliyahu Orgad (Goldberg), 72 Kfar Azza
Amar Abu Sabila, 25 Abu Talul
Eliyahu (Eliko) Uzan, 40 Ashdod Killed at Zikim beach together with his father Aryeh Uzan Aryeh Uzan, 68 Gilat killed at Zikim beach together with his son Eliyahu Uzan
Yonat Or, 50 Be’eri
Maor Graziani, 22 Tel Aviv killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Stav Gueta Ashkelon killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eden Ben Rubi, 23 Rishon Letzion killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Assaf Mordechai Adberg, 23 Hadera Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yossef (Yossi) Wahab Nir Oz
Shahak Yosef Madar, 26 Dimona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Liam Gallon, 26 Dimona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Nadav Yosef Hai Tayeb Beit Shikma Killed at Zikim Beach
Zelta Kosovski, 28 Kiryat Gat Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Dan Ben Hemo, 26 Ra’anana Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Amir Tanbora, 23 Sderot
Noy Aviv, 29 Eilat Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Adi Rivka Mayzel, 21 Karnei Shomron Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Guy Azar, 23 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Avi Sassi, 64 Los Angeles Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yehoshua Hatav, 67 Ashkelon killed by rocket fire
Majed Ibrahim, 19 Abu Ghosh killed by rocket fire
Gabi Azulay, 47 Kiryat Malakhi Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Karla Stelzer Mendes, 42 Kiryat Malakhi Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Itzik Dahan, 48 Kiryat Malakhi Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Moshe Vadi, 37 Ashkelon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Jake Marlowe, 26 London Security guard, killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Solomon Ilyaguyev, 28 Sderot
Jonathan Ken-Dror, 28 Hod Hasharon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Alexandre Look, 30 Montreal Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
David Lischov, 35 Kiryat Yam Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
John Aslanoo, 70 Ashdod Killed at Zikim Beach
Robert Shaulov, 70 Ashdod Killed at Zikim Beach
Idan Harmati, 22 Alfei Menashe Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Aviad Avraham Edri, 30 Nitzan Killed in Kfar Azza
Mor Gabai, 30 Sderot Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mark Shindel, 23 Kfar Yona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Idan Edri, 36 HaSolelim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Antonio Yaniv Macías Montaño, 28 Kfar Sava Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yvonne Eden Patricia Rubio Vargas, 26 Kfar Sava Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Hili Solomon Kfar Yona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Moshe Shova Kfar Yona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yuval Baron Kfar Yona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Bar Zohar, 23 Kfar Warburg Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ron Weinberg, 24 Yokne’am Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gideon Babani Yehud Killed in Nirim
Roi Popplewell Nirim
Alina Falhati, 23 Beit She’an Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Bancha Dachtuyawat Foreign worker from Thailand Tou Cae Lee Foreign worker from Thailand Nanthawat Pinjai Foreign worker from Thailand Meechai Ritthiphon Foreign worker from Thailand Parinya Tamkang Foreign worker from Thailand Somkhoun Pansa-ard Foreign worker from Thailand Jaroon Chatdumdee Foreign worker from Thailand Wuttipat Wisetdonwai Foreign worker from Thailand Phithak Tholaeng Foreign worker from Thailand Sattawat Phiaaia Foreign worker from Thailand Jakkaphong Jantharasena Foreign worker from Thailand Saksit Khotmee Foreign worker from Thailand
Refael Meir Maskalchi, 12 Netivot Killed by rocket fire
Netanel Maskalchi, 36 Netivot Killed by rocker fire
Rafael Fahimi, 63 Netivot Killed by rocket fire
Eli Rafai (Refael) Yavneh Killed near Re’im
Sharon Refai, 28 Gan Yavneh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shahar Mantzur, 28 Shoham Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Benny Ganish, 70 Ashkelon Killed at Zikim Beach
Yuliya Didenko Lamai Ari’el Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eden Liz Ohayon, 24 Tirat Carmel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Anula Jayathilaka, 49 Be’eri Foreign worker from Sri Lanka
Daniel Kimmenfeld, 64 Ashkelon Killed at Zikim Beach
Paul Vincent Castelvi, 42 Be’eri Caregiver in Be’eri from the Philippines Semyon Avdalimov, 66 Sderot
Tomer Segev, 30 Ra’anana Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Alexander Samoilov, 28 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Victoria Gorlov, 23 Bat Yam Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Jenny Nisenboim, 32 Bat Yam Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Karina Pritika, 23 Ari’el Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eden Abdullayev, 23 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Rinat Zagdon, 23 Elazar Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Omri Achrak Elyakhin Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Adir Mesika Even Yehuda Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sharona Shmunis Harel, 40 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shira Eylon, 23 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sagiv Baylin Ben-Zvi, 24 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sgt. Shoam Moshe Ben-Harush, 20 Haspin Nahal Brigade fighter , Wounded in battle on October 7, Died of his wounds on October 26
Matan Zanti, 23 Dimona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Elyakin Nazarov, 29 Kiryat Yam Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Libby Cohen Maguri, 22 Tel Aviv Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sharon Hirsch, 45 Ramat Hasharon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Roni Petrovski, 24 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tomer Strosta, 23 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Katerina Tavgan Goldman, 26 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shachar Gindi, 25 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ofek Aton, 24 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Amit Levi, 22 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Barak Davidi, 28 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lior Tkach , 26 Be’er Sheva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lior Atun, 25 Hadera Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ron Shemer, 23 Lod Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ori Tchernichovsky, 29 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Elazar Samuelov, 21 Ashdod Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Natalia Tomayev, 71 Holon Killed in Sderot
Nadejda Spravchikov Netivot Killed in Sderot
Izhar Hagbi, 66 Yahini
Dudi Sharon Nahariyya Killed at the outdoor rave near Nirim
Ilan Avraham, 57 Beit Aryeh-Ofarim Killed in Moshav Yakhini
Rotem Rachel Levi, 22 Yokne’am Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shamil Abbasov, 33 Be’er Sheva Taxi driver, killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Bracha Levinson, 75 Nir Oz
Anita Lisman, 25 Modi’in Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mordechai Ben Ariel Bitton, 22 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Inbar Shem Tov, 22 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Efrat Katz, 68 Nir Oz Likely killed by Israeli helicopter fire while being kidnapped on October 7
Maayan Idan, 18 Nahal Oz Killed in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7.
Ronen Daichman, 49 Lehavim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Aran Goren, 33 Kfar Azza
Tova Goren Kfar Azza
Dr. Hagit Refaeli Mishkin, 48 Hod Hasharon Killed near Kibbutz Be’eri Margarita Gusak, 21 Gan Yavneh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eviatar Kipnis, 65 Be’eri
Raz Bokovza Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shachaf Kriyf, 17 Gilat
Eden David Moshe, 27 Beit Hashmonai Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Iftach Dan Tweg, 27 Moshav Azaria Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ben Binyamin Cohen, 27 Beit Hashmonai
Dor Toar, 27 Mishmar Ayalon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shiraz Daniel Brodash, 23 Ramot Meir
Bar Lior Nakmoli, 27 Rehovot Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gaya Halifa, 24 Kiryat Ono Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yonatan Eliyahu, 21 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shaked Habani, 22 Nes Tziona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Moshe (Moshiko) Saidian Yavneh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shlomi Sividia, 37 Ganei Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tal Danieli, 24 Be’er Sheva
Avidan Turgeman, 26 Masuot Yitzhak Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ido Ben Zino
Aviel Rahamim, 27 Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Nir Forti, 30 Omer Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Master Sergant Ziv Dado, 36 Rehovot Logistics supervisor in the 51st Battalion, Golani Brigade , Kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. On December 11, the IDF found his body in Gaza
Lior Tarshansky, 16 Be’eri Amit Yehuda Ben Avida, 19 Tel Aviv Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Aviel Oren, 28 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Elya Iluz, 27 Ashkelon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Zinaida Beilin, 60 Sderot
Dvir Rahamim, 23 Ashdod Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gideon Rivlin, 18 Otniel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Idan Dor, 25 Giv’on Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Benayahu Bitton, 23 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Maayan Kalihman, 22 Nir Banim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Adi Ohana, 43 Ashkelon
Ortal Bobats Ben Ayun, 24 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Daniel Ohana, 24 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Nissim Levy, 30 Rehovot Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Dan Zomer, 27 Nes Tziona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tal Bartik Klein, 48 Be’er Sheva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Niv Aivas, 25 Jerusalem
Nevo Arad Sa’ad Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eldad (Angel) Bergman Merkaz Shapira Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Oded Abargel, 26 Merkaz Shapira Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Emma Poliakof, 86 Ofakim
Roni Polvanov, 23 Ramla Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lili Itamari Kfar Azza
Ram Itamari Kfar Azza
Tomer Shpirer, 37 Gedera
Michael Yoav Givat Ze’ev Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Einav (Hen) Burstein Carmiel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yehuda Bachar, 24 Beit Shemesh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Amit Yitzhak David, 24 Beit Shemesh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ofer Udi Beit Shemesh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shlomi Davidovic, 50 Gevim
Hila Klein, 41 Mazkeret Batya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mai Naim, 24 Gan Haim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Liron Barda Sha’arei Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Giyora Duvdevani Talmei Yosef Ziva Ovitz, 77 Amioz Thanakrit Prakotwong Foreign worker from Thailand Srithat Kawao Foreign worker from Thailand Phongthep Kusaram Foreign worker from Thailand Anucha Sophakun Foreign worker from Thailand Nitikorn Sae Wang Foreign worker from Thailand Phongphat Suchat Foreign worker from Thailand Phichit Najan Foreign worker from Thailand Apichart Gusaram Foreign worker from Thailand Phirun Thanonphim Foreign worker from Thailand Sakda Surakhai Foreign worker from Thailand Pongsatorn Khunsree Foreign worker from Thailand Theerapong Klangsuwan Foreign worker from Thailand Chairat Sanusan Foreign worker from Thailand Arnan Phetrkaeo Foreign worker from Thailand
Sigal Levy, 31 Netanya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lidor Levy Pardesiya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Nitzan Rahum, 28 Pardesiya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ben Binyamin Shimoni, 31 Ashkelon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lotan Abir, 24 Gan Haim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ruth Hodaya Peretz, 17 Kiryat Haim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im with her father Arik
Arik (Arie) Peretz, 58 Kiryat Haim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im with his daughter Ruth
Margit Silberman Nir Oz
Yossi Silberman Nir Oz
Bilha Epstein Kfar Azza
Nira Ronen, 86 Kfar Azza
Rivka Ben Horin, 74 Nir Oz
Amitay Ben Zvi Nir Oz
Carolin Bohl, 22 Berlin, Germany
Daniel (Dan) Darlington, 34 Manchester, United Kingdom
David Alberto Schwartzman, 67 Kfar Azza
Orly Schwartzman Pinko, 67 Kfar Azza
Irmi Shafir, 76 Nir Oz
Gideon Fauker, 80 Nir Oz
Shachar Gal Kadman, 34 Yesha Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lior Weizman 32 Sderot
Kobi Paryante, 43 Sderot
Vitali Troufanov Nir Oz
Noy Zafraani, 27 Nokdim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Ananda Shah Nepali student Dipesh Raj Bista Nepali student Ashish Chaudhary Nepali student Narayan Prasad Neupane Nepali student Lokendra Singh Dhami Nepali student Rajan Fulara Nepali student Raj Kumar Swarnakar Nepali student Prabesh Bhandari Nepali student Padam Thapa Nepali student Ganesh Kumar nepali Nepali student
Romi Eli Bernat, 38 Modi’in Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mody (Mordechai) Amir Kfar Azza
Shoval Yaakov Mehola Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Idan Herman 26 Palmahim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Chana Kritzman Be’eri
Ilai Baram, 27 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Hezi (Yechezkel) Hanom Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Asaf Shlesinger, 57 Rosh Ha’ayin Head of the medical team at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Hadar Hoshen, 28 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Matias (Hernan) Burstein Carmiel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yosef (Yosinio) Gross Nir Oz
Avner Goren Nir Oz
Roee Munder Nir Oz
Tamar Goldenberg, 24 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Matan Rosenberg, 17 Dimona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Avi Megira Sderot
Chaim Ben-Naim Netiv Ha’asara
Doron Meir Nirim
Mor Meir, 17 Nirim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shifra Noy, 71 Nir Oz
Shlomo Ron Nahal Oz
Staff sergeant Max Rabinov, 21 Ashdod 414th Battalion fighter Mark Yidgrov Ofakim
Meni Godard, 73 Be’eri Killed on October 7 and his body was taken to Gaza by Hamas
Shalev Madmoni, 24 Rosh Ha’ayin Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Karin Journo, 24 Mazkeret Batya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Matan Ekshetein, 23 Even Yehuda Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gilad Kfir, 48 Gan Yavneh
Dorin Atias, 23 Ganei Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shani Ben Ami, 28 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Noah Hershkovitz Be’eri
Maayana Hershkovitz Be’eri
Naor Levy, 24 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Liav Asayag, 24 Afula Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Segev Shushan, 28 Modi’in Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Tal Siton, 49 Hod Hasharon Killed while visiting family in Be’eri Chana Siton, 73 Hod Hasharon Killed while visiting family in Be’eri Yitzhak Siton, 76 Hod Hasharon Killed while visiting family in Be’eri
Valery Freidman, 60 Dimona
Omer Hermesh Kfar Azza
Shenhav Yaakov, 26 Herzliya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shoham Yaakov, 28 Herzliya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Liel Gherafi Eshta’ol Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yonatan Chai Azulay, 23 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Suheyb abu Amar al-Razm, 22 Jerusalem
Ofek Kimhi Bat Yam Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Adi Kaploun-Vital, 33 Holit
Master Sgt. (res.) Ran Poslushni, 48 Nahal Oz Member of the community’s security squad
Master sergeant (res.) Itay Yehoshua, 36 Hadid Project manager and Lead Instructor, office of the Prime Minister of Israel
Master sergeant (res.) Arie Kraunik, 54 Be’eri Member of the community’s security squad
Noya Dan, 12 Nir Oz
Carmela Dan, 80 Nir Oz
Roi Idan, 45 Kfar Azza Ynet Photographer
Liam Shrem, 25 Tel Aviv Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Hadar Prince, 21 Rehovot Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Celeste Fishbein Ashdod Killed in Kibbutz Be’eri
Rotem Kalderon Be’eri
Yahel Sharabi, 13 Be’eri
Noya Sharabi, 16 Be’eri
Lian Sharabi, 48 Be’eri
Ayelet Godard, 63 Be’eri
Yehudit Yitzhaki Be’eri
Carmel Bachar, 15 Be’eri
Dana Bachar Be’eri
Chava Ben Ami Be’eri
Tal Bira, 62 Be’eri
Tahel Bira, 15 Be’eri
Tair Bira, 22 Be’eri
Yasmin Bira, 51 Be’eri
Oron Bira, 44 Be’eri
Neta Boaziz Morali, 40 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gilad Ben Yehuda, 28 Na’an Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sahar Ashuan, 22 Nesher Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Michal Roimi, 22 Nesher Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gili Adar, 24 Lapid Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Alisia Levin, 34 Carmiel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Linor Keinan, 23 Mazkeret Batya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mai Itzhaki, 25 Hod Hasharon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Norel Manzouri, 25 Hod Hasharon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Roya Manzouri, 22 Hod Hasharon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eden Guez, 31 Ashkelon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Hanan Amar Ashkelon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Nitzan Goldenberg, 28 Netanya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Alina Weissberg, 17 Be’er Sheva
Shosh (Shoshana) Karsenty Be’eri
Adiel Twito, 30 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Irit Konderov, 27 Ashkelon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Michael Vaknin, 35 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Osher Vaknin, 35 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shiraz Shiran Tamam, 38 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tair David Beit Dagan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Hodaya David Beit Dagan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shani Kupervaser, 28 Haifa Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Savyon Chen Kipper, 31 Kiryat Ono Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Omer Zadikevitch, 50 Kfar Azza
Dani Alush, 52 Omer
Dr. Lilia Gurevich, 38 Omer Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Itay Zafrani Eilat Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eliyahu Yaakov Bernstein, 20 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Daniel Vadai, 27 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
David Yair Shalom Neman Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ron Yehudai Yahud-Monoson Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ze’ev Haker Be’eri
Zehava Haker Be’eri
Yuval Solomon Kfar Azza
Eitan Ziv Kfar Azza
Tammy Peleg Ziv Kfar Azza
Senior Staff Sgt. Maj. Golima Samzeo, 49 Sderot Community patrol
Noam Elyakim Nahal Oz
Dina Kapshetar Dimona
Evgeny Kapshetar Dimona
Eitan Kapshetar, 5 Dimona
Aline Kapshetar, 8 Dimona
Avshalom (Avshel) Haran Be’eri
Mira Shtahl Kfar Azza
Avi Hasdai, 53 Ramat Gan Sliman Abu Meri 37 Shaqib al-Salam
Sergeant Major (res.) Tal Eilon, 46 Kfar Azza Member of the community’s security squad
Sivan Sharhabani, 21 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tchelet Zohar, 18 Nahal Oz
Keshet Zohar, 20 Nahal Oz
Yasmin Zohar, 49 Nahal Oz
Yaniv Zohar, 54 Nahal Oz “Israel Hayom” photographer
Amit Lahav, 23 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Neta Epstein, 22 Kfar Azza
Avlom (Albert) Miles Be’eri Igor Losev, 58 Be’eri
David Karol Be’eri
Dor Rider, 21 Be’eri
Silvia Ohayun Be’eri
Yuval Bar Be’eri
Maayan Bar Be’eri
Marcelle Freulich Be’eri
Rafi Svirsky Be’eri
Orit Sela Svirsky Be’eri
Rafi Mordo Be’eri
Pesi Cohen Be’eri
Yossi Appleton, 77 Be’eri
Tamar Suchman Be’eri
Mazal (Mazi) Bachar Be’eri
Aviad Halevy, 29 Gan Hadarom Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tzur Saidi, 29 Gan Hadarom Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Omri Ram, 29 Aseret Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mercedes Amar, 33 Kiryat Ekron Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Moshe Ben Porat Tiberias
Noam Liel Efraim Had Ness Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Leonid Lozovsky Sderot
Naomi Dgani Kfar Azza
Eliyahu Reichenstein, 75 Kfar Azza
Naji Abdush, 35 Kiryat Ekron Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gal Abdush Kiryat Ekron Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yoad Peer, 21 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yitzhak Levy, 27 Jerusalem Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shmuel (Shmulik) Weiss Be’eri
Judith Weiss, 65 Be’eri Kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. On November 16, the IDF found her body in Gaza
Ilan Moshe Yaakov, 29 Tel Aviv Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Amit Magnesi, 23 Nes Tziona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Doron Bulds Gan Shomron Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Keshet Kalfa, 22 Samar Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
David Katzir Kfar Azza
Yakovi Yinon, 78 Netiv Ha’asara
Bilha Yinon, 76 Netiv Ha’asara
Noam Shalom Harish Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Matan (Elmalam) DJ Kido Dimona Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Bar Tomer, 25 Ein Shemer Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Avia Ganot, 22 Tzofit Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ziv Hagbi, 29 Gevim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tiferet Lapidot Harish Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yoram Bar Sinai Be’eri
Reuven Haynik Ashkelon Killed while working in Kissufim
Orel Pesso Kiryat Yam Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im, נרצח במסיבה ברעים
Daniel Peled Kfar Azza
Gila Peled Kfar Azza
Assistant Commissioner Izhar Peled Kfar Azza
Ziv Shopen Be’eri
Edna Malkamo, 45 Ofakim
Sergeant Major Yanin Sivan, 49 Arad Community officer for the Bedouin community at the Aroer station, Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shoshi Brosh Nahal Oz
Corporal Rotem Kutz, 18 Kfar Azza Squad commander in training base 7
Yiftach Kutz, 14 Kfar Azza
Yonatan Kutz, 16 Kfar Azza
Livnat Kutz, 49 Kfar Azza
Aviv Kutz, 54 Kfar Azza
Jonathan Rom Mevasseret Zion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Corporal Liel Vainshtein, 19 Netanya Fire Brigade, Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sergeant first class (res.) Ido Keslasi, 23 Harel Maglan fighter
Sergeant major (res.) Boaz Abraham, 61 Nir Yitzhak Member of the community’s security squad
Master sergeant (res.) Nadav Amikam, 39 Kfar Azza Member of the community’s security squad
Sergeant major (res.) Ofir Mordechai Yaron, 51 Magen Member of the community’s security squad
Sergeant Shalev Dagan, 20 Kiryat Yam 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Lior Atias Rehovot Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Adir Tamam, 40 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Itay Houston Hadar Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yohai Azoulai Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Maayan Mor, 30 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tamar Samet Pardes Hanna-Karkur Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Laor Abramov, 20 Pardes Hanna-Karkur Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tomer Eliaz Arava, 17 Nahal Oz
Daniel Sheinkerman, 25 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Itay Banjo Haifa Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gideon (Gidi) Chiell, 24 Ahuzat Barak Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Noa Chiell, 27 Ahuzat Barak Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
San Amnon Yaakobov Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Staff Sgt. Dor Mengadi, 24 Rosh Ha’ayin Officer in the Coordination of Enforcement Operations unit, Killed in Be’eri
Staff Sgt. Gadif Mologota Kiryat Gat Officer in the Coordination of Enforcement Operations unit, Killed in Be’eri
First Sergeant Boris Danilov, 34 Hadera Officer in the Coordination of Enforcement Operations unit, Killed in Be’eri
Sergeant Daniel Rashed, 19 Shfaram 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter Marina Losev, 60 Be’eri
Narkis Hand Be’eri
Hen Even Be’eri
Kinneret Gat Be’eri
Adrienne Neta Be’eri
Major (res.) Ram Negbi Ein Hashlosha Member of the community’s security squad
Sergeant Ofir Shoshani, 20 Kfar Azza Squad Commander at Mifrasit Base
Lior Asulin, 43 Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shir Yaron Zohar Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Dan Damari Zohar Silvia Marnasky, 80 Ein Hashlosha
Noa Glazberg Ein Hashlosha
Moti Elkabetz Yated Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Noy Maudi Yated Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Noam Rabia Dekel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yuval Rabia Dekel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tsion Levy Dekel
Shir Georgie, 22 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gil Avni Caesarea Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Oriya Ricardo Caesarea Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
First Sgt. (res.) Abraham Gabriel Korin, 56 Holit Member of the community’s security squad
Maj. (res.) Uri Shimon Russo, 44 Kfar Azza Member of the community’s security squad Sgt. Eliasaf Ben Porat, 21 Safed 282nd Artillery Regiment
Master Sgt. (res.) Shachar Aviani, 56 Kfar Azza Member of the community’s security squad
Sgt. Adi Landman, 19 Yokne’am Ilit Unit 414
Cpl. Osher Simcha Barzilai, 19 Mazkeret Batya Soldier in the Gaza Division
Shraga Hasid, 77 Mazkeret Batya
Master Sgt. (res.) Shachaf Bergstein, 33 Kfar Azza Member of the community’s security squad
First Sgt. Ibrahim Kharuba, 39 Maghar Tracker in the Gaza Division
Cpl. Tomer Leibovitz, 19 Tel Aviv Soldier in the 7th Armored Brigade
Nadav Goldstein , 46 Kfar Azza Killed with his daughter, Sgt. Yam Goldstein Almog
Sgt. Yam Goldstein Almog, 20 Kfar Azza Commander in the Computer Service Directorate, Killed with her father Nadav Goldstein
Master Sergeant Sharon Leibovich Patrolman at the Ofakim station
Chief Inspector Dan Ganot, 41 Harish Commander in the coordination of enforcement operations unit
Superintendent Avi Amar, 55 Otzem Commander in the Yoav Unit
Cpl. Ariel Erez, 19 Amka
Lin Dafni Ein Hamifratz Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Maya Ben David, 48 Kfar Haim
Roni Shitrit, 24 Beit Yitzhak Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Adi Margalit, 24 Haniel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yonatan Richter, 48 Ein Hod Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Cpl. Matan Malka, 19 Gesher Haziv Paratrooper
Yarden Buskila Kfar Masrik Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ziv Frenkel Bustan Hagalil Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mapal Adam Herzliya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mor Trabelsi Nahariya Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Hai Haim Zfati Kiryat Ata Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Rachel Dov, 25 Kiryat Yam Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Moriya Raviv, 23 Kiryat Motzkin Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Daniella Dana Patrenko, 23 Haifa Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Michal Admoni, 51 Kfar Azza Captain Guy Admoni’s mother
Captain Guy Admoni, 25 Kfar Azza Intelligence officer
Noa Englander Kiryat Bialik Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Sammi Elgargawi, 52
Or Ziv, 24 Adi Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eitan Snir Ahuzat Barak Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Din Bar Ahuzat Barak Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ben Bernstien Tzipori Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lior Maimon, 22 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Aviv Eliyahu Elkosh Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im, where he worked as a security guard
Kim Damti, 22 Gedera Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shay Regev, 25 Ramat Yishay Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Oron Beilin, 24 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Mor Cohen, 24 Azur Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sgt. Roee Haim Guri, 21 Ofakim Soldier in the Golani Brigade
Staff Sgt. Itay Abraham Ron, 20 Ness Ziona Soldier in the Golani Brigade
Sgt. Omri Peretz, 20 Elyachin Squad commander
Superintendent Martin Kuzmickas, 46 Sderot Commander in the coordination of enforcement operations unit, Killed in battle at the Sderot Police station
Liraz Nissan Carmiel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Matan Lior Mordechai, 35 Sde Hemed Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eynav Elkayam Levy, 32 Givatayim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ben Fishman, 21 Kfar Sava Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Staff Sgt. Maj. Aaron Arthur Markovici Ashkelon
Sgt. Benjamin Blay, 20 Rehovot Staff driver
Sgt. Major (res.) Gil Avital, 56 Yesha Member of the community’s security squad
Sgt. Ori Carmi, 20 Rishon Letzion Soldier in the Golani Brigade
Daniel Ben Senior, 34 Or Akiva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yaruslav (Slava) Giller, 28 Karmiel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ram Sela, 33 Neveh Or Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Bar Shechter, 32 Katzir Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Awad Darawshe Paramedic, killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yitzhak Cozin Be’eri
Yonatan Rapaport Be’eri
Hagay Avni Be’eri
Mati Weiss Be’eri
Amir Weiss Be’eri
Geula Bachar Be’eri
Ran Shefer Be’eri
Gil Buyum, 55 Be’eri
Inbar Buyum Be’eri
Haim Zohar Be’eri
Adi Dagan Be’eri
Mordechai Naveh Be’eri
Roni Levy Be’eri
Noy Shosh, 36 Be’eri
Eitan Hadad, 43 Be’eri
Shachar Zemach, 39 Be’eri
Sami Keidar, 70 Be’eri Galit Carbon, 66 Be’eri Avi Mor, 61 Be’eri
Segev Israel Kishner, 22 Atzmon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ayelet Arnin, 22 Atzmon
Na’ama Moalem Beit She’an Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Shoham Turgeman, 24 Beit She’an Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sgt. First Class Orel Shalom Alon, 23 Kiryat Ata Officer in the coordination of enforcement operations unit, Killed in Be’eri
Nir Madmon, 23 Peduim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Maya Puder Zichron Yaakov Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sergeant Adir Eshto Bogale, 20 Ariel Soldier in the Golani Brigade
Stav Barazani, 23 Gan Ner Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Stephen Makarchenko, 24 Carmiel Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Sergeant Shachaf Nesani, 20 Ashkelon Observer in the 414th Regiment, Combat Intelligence Collection Corps
Corporal Boaz Menache Yoggev, 19 Talmon
Master sergeant (res.) Noam Slotki, 31 Be’er Sheva Army Medic on the 221st Battalion, Carmeli Brigade
Staff sergeant Yishay Fitusi, 21 Talmon 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Corporal Amir Eyal, 19 Haifa Fighter in the 414th Regiment, Combat Intelligence Collection Corps
Sergeant Neria Ben David, 22 Haifa Squad Leader,603 Battalion, Combat Engineering Corps
Sergeant Yarin Mari Peled Be’eri Military Medic at Northern Command
Sergeant Noa Prais, 20 Mabu’im Observer in the 414th Regiment, Combat Intelligence Collection Corps Corporal Habib Kiean, 21 Hura 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Sergeant Dvir Haim Rossler, 21 Kedumim 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Corporal Yael Leibushor, 20 Ge’a Observer in the 414th Regiment, Combat Intelligence Collection Corps
First Sergeant Yakir Blochman Detective from the Segev Shalom Police Station , Killed fighting against terrorists in Kibbutz Re’im
Sergeant Aviad Rivlin, 23 Otniel Technological and Logistics Directorate
Yosef Sefi Genis, 30 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Gal Navon, 30 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Amit Mann, 22 Be’eri MDA paramedic, Killed in Kibbutz Be’eri medical clinic while she was treating the wounded
Uri Arad, 22 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Rotem Neumann, 22 Kfar Hess Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Tal Katz, 37 Ma’alot-Tarshiha Was at the outdoor rave near Re’im; Killed in Kibbutz Be’eri
Niv Tel Tzur, 22 Ramat Gan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lt. Shir Eilat, 20 Kfar Shmuel Platoon Commander in the 414 Battalion of the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps
Oz Ezra, 23 Holon Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Second lieutenant Yohai Dukhan, 26 Kiryat Arba Platoon Commander in the 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade
Maya Bitton, 22 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Eliran Mizrahi, 24 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Yarin Moshe Ephraim, 24 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Olga Naomi Romashkin, 28 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Hanani Glazer, 24 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Maya Haim, 22 Petah Tikva Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Daniel Goltman, 24 Rishon Letzion Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Yahav Winner Kfar Azza
Itay Berdichevsky Kfar Azza
Hadar Rosenfeld-Berdichevsky Kfar Azza
Cpt. Ben Bronstein, 24 Holon Duvdevan Unit fighter
Cpl. Itamar Cohen, 19 Carmiel 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Staff Sgt. Dvir Zakai, 20 Tiberias 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Maj. Ilay Zisser, 27 Givat Ela Sayeret Matkal, The General Staff’s elite special-operations force fighter
Cpl. Ido Binenstock, 19 Ramat Gan 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Lt. Ilay Adani, 21 Tel Mond Officer in the Maglan Unit
Pvt. Noam Abramovitz, 19 Givat Brenner Observer in the 414th Regiment, Combat Intelligence Collection Corps
Staff Sgt. Dolev Amouyal, 21 Netanya 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Oren Alfasi Ramat Hasharon Killed by terrorist fire in Kibbutz Nirim
Daniel Levi MD Kiryat Ono Doctor at the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, Killed in Kibbutz Be’eri medical clinic
Bruna Văleanu Petah Tikva Immigrated from Brazil with her mother and sister, Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Ben Menashe Mizrahi Yavneh Group Canadian citizen, who served as a lone soldier and was adopted by a family in the Yavneh Group, killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Dan Ariel Herzliya Son of Prof. Meir Ariel, head of the centre for Nano-Satellites and New Space at the university of Tel-Aviv, Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im Smadar Mor Idan, 38 Kfar Azza Shin Bet security service Omer Gvera, 26 Gan Yavneh Shin Bet security service
Lt. Amir Tzur, 23 Jerusalem Sayeret Matkal commando unit
Sgt. Amit Mosat, 20 Modi’in Nahal soldier
Staff Sgt. Roi Bareket, 20 Tel Aviv Golani soldier
Lt. Eyal Klein, 22 Kfar Harif Nahal soldier
Staff Sgt. Yonatan Savitsky, 21 Modi’in Egoz commando unit
Capt. Eden Nimri, 22 Modi’in Commander in the Artillery Corps’ drone unit
Cpl. Lior Azizov, 20 Kfar Silver Golani soldier
Sgt. First Class (res.) Tomer Dolev, 34 Ashkelon Home Front Command soldier
Lieutenant Alina Pravosudova, 23 Haifa Home Front Command officer
Major Roey Chapell, 25 Zichron Yaakov Company Commander in the Nahal Special Forces unit
Sergeant Idan Raz, 20 Ein HaMifratz Golani Brigade fighter
Corporal Roei Peri, 19 Shoham Golani Brigade
Captain (res.) David Haim Meir, 31 Jerusalem Fighter in Sayeret Matkal, the General Staff’s elite special-operations force, Killed in battle in Kibbutz Be’eri
Sergeant Or Malka, 21 Acre Coordinator of government activities in the territories unit
Stav Kimhi, 35 Re’im Killed at her home in Kibbutz Re’im
Rudy Skrzewski, 56 Ohad
Chief Inspector Avi Tzidon Yevul Deputy head of the patrol unit at the Ofakim station
Dudi Turgeman, 26 Sde Nitzan Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Itay Nahmias Yesha
Dor Nahum, 24 Mivtachim Killed at the outdoor rave near Re’im
Hen Ben-Avi Mivtachim
Dan Assulin Mivtachim
Sgt. Major (res.) Aviad Gad Cohen, 41 Shlomit Member of the community’s security squad
Sgt. Major (res.) Reuven Shishportish, 36 Shlomit Member of the community’s security squad, killed on October 7 Ofir Erez, 57 Sufa Member of the community’s security squad
Bernard Cohen Sufa
Master sergeant (res.) Yaron Victor Shahar, 51 Nir Yitzhak Member of the community’s security squad
Staff sergeant (res.) Ofek Arazi, 28 Nir Yitzhak Member of the community’s security squad
Sagi Zak, 15 Kissufim
Itay Zak Kissufim
Eti Zak Kissufim
Menucha Hulati Kissufim
Ofer Ron Kissufim
Gina Smiatich Kissufim
Tom Godo Kissufim
Varda Harmati Re’im
Assaf Feber Re’im
Master Sgt. (res.) Yuval Gabai, 35 Rehovot Commander in a combat unit
Amit Gabai, 18 Re’im
Dvir Karp Re’im
Dror Behat Beit Alfa
Master Sergeant Eliyahu Michael Harush, 28 Netivot Patrolman at the Sderot Police Station, Killed in Sderot
Master Sergeant Uriel Avraham Patrolman in the Negev Yasam Patrol Unit
Osama Abu Assa, 36 Tel Sheva Guard
Musa Abu Sabila, 41 Abu Talul Guard
Nir Nikita Popov Ashdod Bodyguard of Communications Minister Shlomo Karai
Chief Inspector Avraham Henkin Police Special Anti-Terror Unit fighter Pvt. Yonatan Elazari, 20 Alon Shavut Duvdevan Unit fighter , Killed in battle in Ofakim
Staff Sgt. Naveh Eliazar Lax, 21 Lod Sayeret Matkal The General Staff’s elite special-operations force fighter
Staff Sgt. Tashgar Taka, 21 Jerusalem 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade soldier
2nd Lt. Yonatan Gutin, 19 Modi’in Maccabim-Reut Officer in the Multidimensional Unit
Lt. Nitai Omer, 22 Alumim Officer in the Combat Engineering Corp Cpt. (res) Roi Nagri, 28 Tel Aviv Unit commander in the Lotar Counter Terror Watch School
Sgt. Ben Rubenstein, 20 Hod Hasharon Instructor at LOTAR, IDFs counter-terrorism special forces unit
Lt. Itay Cohen, 22 Rehovot Commander in the Yahalom Patrol Unit
Cpl. Ilay Bar Sadeh, 19 Ramat Gan 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter Cpl. Amit Tzur, 19 Elyachin 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Maj. Peleg Salem, 30 Yakhini Logistic officer in the 460th Brigade of the Armored Corps Staff Sgt. Orel Moshe, 21 Rechasim 12th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Cpl. Adir Tahar, 19 Jerusalem 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade fighter
Lt. Col. Eli Ginsburg, 42 Dovrat Officer in the Naval Commando Unit Shayetet 13
Pvt. Lior Levy, 19 Dimona Home Front Command
Abed Alrahman Ataf Alziedana, 29 Rahat
Sivan Elkabetz Ashdod
Tehila Katabi Holit
Petro Bosco, 35 Moldova Foreign worker, killed in Kibbutz Holit on October 7
Moshe Ridler, 91 Holit
Lily Keizman Holit
Roland Sultan, 68 Holit
Ronit Sultan, 56 Holit
Shlomi Matthias Holit
Shahar Matthias, 47 Holit
Sgt. First Class (res.) Hayim Yeshurun Katzman, 32 Holit
Meir Elharar Holit
Liz Elharar Holit Cpl. Amit Guetta, 21 Rehovot Maglan Unit fighter Staff Sgt. Or Mizrahi, 21 Petah Tikva Nahal Patrol fighter
Cpl. Danit Cohen, 19 Sderot Military Sergeant in the Southern Command
Maj. Ariel Ben Moshe, 27 Kiryat Bialik Company Commander in the General Staff’s elite special-operations force
Warrant Officer Ido Rosental, 45 Ben Shemen Shaldag Unit fighter
Maj. Amir Skuri, 31 Jerusalem General Staff’s elite special-operations force fighter
Lt. Shilo Cohen, 24 Sderot Shaldag Unit fighter
First Sgt. Aharon Farash, 36 Ofakim Logistic NCO
Cpl. Shira Shohat, 19 Modi’in-Maccabim-Reut Observer in the 141st Battalion Combat Intelligence Collection Corps
Staff Sgt. Guy Simchi, 20 Gedera Paratrooper Patrol fighter
Staff Sgt. Adir Gauri, 20 Jerusalem Sayeret Matkal, the General Staff’s elite special-operations force fighter
Sergeant Roi Wizer, 21 Efrat 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade Fighter Ilay Nachman, 23 Or Yehuda Killed in outdoor rave near Kibbutz Re’im Maor Shalom, 46 Arugot Yossi Tahar, 39 Bitzaron Shin Bet security service
First Sergeant Dvora Avraham Patrolwoman at the Ofakim Police Station
Sergeant Major Denis Belenky, 47 Ofakim Patrolman at the Sderot Police Station, Killed in Sderot
Chief Inspector Stas Shainkman Officer in the Police Special Anti-Terror Unit
Superintendent Vadim Blich, 39 Commander in the Coordination of Enforcement Operations Unit
Halad Alfrahin, 50 Arara Killed in Re’im on October 7th
Osama Abu Madiyam, 28 Rahat
Cpl. Yaron Zohar, 19 Kiryat Ata 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade Fighter
1st. Lt. Rom Shlomi, 23 Ganot Shaldag Unit Fighter
1st. Lt. Itai Maor, 23 Rosh Ha’ayin 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade Company Commander
1st. Lt. Tomer Shoham, 23 Srigim Platoon Commander in the Nahal Special Forces Unit
Sgt. 1st Class Vitaly Skipkavich, 21 Ariel Egoz Unit Fighter
Maj. (res.) Omri Michaeli, 35 Nes Tziona Duvdevan Unit Fighter
Cpl. Uri Locker, 19 Pardes Hanna-Karkur 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade Fighter
Maj. Ido Yehoshua, 27 Yavneh Company Commander in the Israeli Air Force Special Forces School
Cpl. Itamar Ayish, 19 Kiryat Gat Home Front Command
Staff Sgt. Ohad Cohen, 20 Idan Platoon Commander in the Shaldag Patrol Unit
Staff Sgt. Ilay Gamzo, 20 Ashdod Squad Commander in the Paratroopers Command Brigade Training Base
Capt. Aryeh Shlomo Ziering, 27 Ra’anana Company Commander in the Oketz Unit
Capt. Tal Grushka, 25 Kfar Sava Company Commander in 931 Battalion of the Nahal Brigade
Pvt. Ofir Davidyan, 18 Patish Home Front Command
Staff sergeant Itay-Eliyahu Marchiano, 20 Shoham Squad Commander in the Paratroopers Command Brigade Training Base
Major Avraham Hobelashvili, 26 Ashdod Officer in the Caracal Battalion
Lt. Col. Yonatan Tzur, 33 Kedumim Commander of the Nahal Brigade Special Forces
Col. Roey Yosef Levy, 44 Shavei Tzion Commander of IDF Multidimensional Unit
Abed Elcarim el-Nasasra, 50 Kseifa Killed while trying to rescue survivors from the outdoor rave near Re’im
Lance Corp. Ravit Hana Assiyag, 19 Ashdod Border Police Lance Corp. in police’s Southern District
Staff Sergeant Eliona Astafniko, 25 Town patrol Ofakim, Southern Region
Sergeant First Class Shai El Knafo, 30 Town patrol, Southern Region
Sergeant First Class Michael Lizmi, 28 Detective Be’er Sheva station, Southern Region
Sergeant First Class Avi Buzaglo, 26 Detective, Rahat Police, Southern Region
Master Sergeant Elior Yifrach, 34 Detective, Southern Region
Master Sergeant Yakov Shlomo Karsninski, 23 Fighter in undercover unit, Southern Border police
Staff Sergeant Major Dror Elton, 29 Sapper in special unit for combating terrorism, special police unit
First Sergeant Yorai Eliyahu Cohen, 29 Fighter in special unit for combating terrorism, special police unit
First Sergeant Malik Karim, 32 Investigator Beersheba station, Southern Region
First Sergeant Alec Pozniakov, 38 Ashkelon Detective Magen unit, Southern Region, Killed in Kibbutz Re’im
First Sergeant Vitaly Karsik, 38 Ashkelon Forensics department crime scene investigator, Tel Aviv Region, Killed in Kibbutz Re’im
First Sergeant Alexei Bodovsky, 39 Negev Yasam patrol, Southern Region
First Sergeant Alon Barad, 38 Be’er Sheva Investigator in Rahat station, Southern Region, Killed in Kibbutz Re’im
First Sergeant Major Bar Sivan, 33 Fighter in the special unit for combating terrorism, special police unit
Sergeant Major Yigal Iluz, 56 Ofakim Bomb sapper, Southern Region, Killed during battle in Ofakim
Sergeant Major Adir Shlomo, 47 Head of logistics headquarters at Sderot station, Southern Region
Sergeant Major Roni Abuharon, 39 Rahat detective, Southern Region
Sergeant Major Yehuda Kedar, 50 Noncommissioned officer, Eshkol Ein Habesor, Southern Border Police
Sergeant Major Roman Gendel, 47 Lod Lt. instructor, tactical division Border Police, Killed in Nir Am
Sergeant Major Chen Nahmias, 43 Sniper in the special unit for combating terrorism, (special police unit)
Command Sergeant Major Officer Meir Abragil, 55 Sderot station investigation coordinator, Southern Region
Inspector Alexei Shamkov, 34 Hibat Tzion Officer in the special unit for combating terrorism, (special police unit)
Inspector Andrei Poshivi, 39 Netiv Ha’asara Town station patrol officer, Southern Region
Chief Inspector Amin Ohanadov, 36 Ofakim Team commander in Yoav unit, Southern Region, Killed in Kibbutz Re’im
Chief Inspector Nissim Lugassi, 30 Deputy commander, rural assault unit from Southern Region
Chief Inspector Moshe El Shlomo, 33 Officer in special division in fighting terror, special police unit
Chief Superintendent Itzhak Bazuka-Shvili, 44 Commander of the Segev Shalom Police Station
Chief Superintendent Ge-ar Davidov, 44 Commander of the Rahat Police Station
Sgt. Maj. Arik Yehudah Marciano, 50 Squad commander at the Kiryat Gat fire station
Captain (res.) Ido Edri, 24 Gibton Infantry officer, Killed at the outdoor rave near Kibbutz Re’im Sergeant Major Amir Fisher, 22 Tel Aviv Soldier in Duvdevan Unit
Cpl. Adi Gruman, 19 Hogla Unit 414 soldier
Captain Or Yosef Ran, 29 Itamar Commander in Duvdevan Unit
Cpl. Nathanel Young, 20 Tel Aviv Soldier in the 13th Battalion
2nd Lt. Yoav Meliev, 19 Kiryat Ono Officer in the 7th Armored Brigade
Staff Sgt. Ido Harush, 21 Mitzpeh Ramon Soldier in the 7th Armored Brigade
1st Lt. Yiftach Yabetz, 23 Ramat Hasharon Commander in Maglan
Private Naama Boni, 19 Afula Soldier in the 7th Armored Brigade
Private Neriya Aharon Negri, 18 Talmon Home Front Command soldier
Cpl. Guy Bazak, 19 Kochav Ya’ir Golani soldier
Staff Sgt. Yuval Ben-Yaakov, 21 Kfar Menachem Soldier in the 7th Armored Brigade
Sgt. Eden Alon Levy, 19 Nirit Commander in the Home Front Command
Cpl. Dvir Lisha, 21 Nitzan Golani soldier
Staff Sgt. Omri Niv Fierstein, 20 Givatayim Home Front Command soldier
1st Lt. Or Moses, 22 Ashdod Commander in the Home Front Command, Killed in Zikim army base
2nd Lt. Yanai Kaminka, 20 Tzur Hadassah Commander in the Home Front Command
Sgt. Afik Rosenthal, 20 Kfar Menachem A soldier in Maglan
Lt. Col. Sahar Machalof, 36 Modi’in Commander of the 481st Signal Battalion
Sgt. Or Esatu, 21 Be’er Sheva NCO in Golani
2nd Lt. Adar Ben-Simon, 20 Neve Ziv Platoon commander in the Home Front Command
Staff Sgt. Ofir Tzioni, 21 Yokne’am Illit Commander in the Home Front Command
Captain Yotam Ben-Basat, 24 Bat Hefer Commander in the Multidimensional Unit
Captain Adir Abudi, 23 Modi’in Military policeman in the Home Front Command.
Maj. Chen Buchris, 26 Ashdod Deputy commander of Maglan, Killed in battle with terrorists
Aharon Haimov, 25 Ofakim Senior medic and ambulance driver, Shot dead in Ofakim while driving an ambulance on his way to treat the wounded
Marcel Talia Kiryat Arba Killed in Ein Hashlosha
Hannah Ben-Artzi, 69 Kfar Aviv Mother of three, Killed by rocket fire while trying to open a public shelter for residents who didn’t have access to shelters in their homes
Yevgeny Galeski, 34 Sderot Senior Firefighter, Killed in Sderot
Shalom Tzaban, 60 Sderot Battalion Chief, Israel Fire and Rescue Services Kiryat Gat, Killed in Sderot, presumably from missile shrapnel.
Dani Woveck Netiv HaAsara
Marina Almagor, 76 Netiv HaAsara
Nurit Berger Netiv HaAsara
Or Akuni Netiv HaAsara
Aryeh Akuni Netiv HaAsara
Ruti Akuni Netiv HaAsara
Tal Keren, 17 Netiv HaAsara
Adi Baharav, 62 Netiv HaAsara
Havik Segal Netiv HaAsara
Ayelet Molcho Netiv HaAsara
Shlomi Molcho Netiv HaAsara
Oren Stern Netiv HaAsara
Yigal Wachs Netiv HaAsara
Amit Wachs, 48 Netiv HaAsara Dalia Abu-Madyam, 30 Rahat Killed near the Gaza border Faiza Abu Sabaakh, 54 Kukhleh Killed by rocket fire
May Zuheir Abu Sabaakh, 13 Kukhleh Killed by rocket fire Fatima Altilakat, 35 Arara
Mahmoud Diab Alkra’an, 12 Kukhleh
Amin Akal Alkra’an, 11 Kukhleh
Jawad Ibrahim Alkra’an, 14 Kukhleh
Malek Ibrahim Alkra’an, 14 Kukhleh Yazan Zakaria Abu-Jama, 5 Arara Killed by rocket fire
Ofir Libstein, 50 Kfar Azza Head of the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council
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