Ruby and his wife, Hagit, spent the first five months after October 7 hopeful that their son was alive in captivity. But in March last year they had a call from the Israel Defence Forces to say their intelligence suggested that Itay had been killed on the day Hamas attacked. He had been a year into his mandatory military service and on duty in a tank unit at the Nahal Oz army base, 850 metres from Gaza. He had switched shifts with another soldier, working the holiday of Simchat Torah so that he could have the next weekend off to...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
