Israeli couple Leron and Zoli Mor have identical tattoos on their arms, showing a procession of eight elephants, with their tails and trunks intertwined.
The first two are the parents and the six smaller ones behind them are the pups. The last three are even smaller than the others and have fresher paint because they were added later.
The eight elephants represent the Mor family. Leron and Zoli Mor have three children and have adopted three others whose parents – one of whom is Leron’s sister – were killed in the Hamas sniper attack on Israel on October 7 last year.
“There were five of them,” Leron Mor said at the family’s new home in the northern Israeli village of Bnei Dror, pointing to the tattoo on his arm.
“And three more joined them.”
One of the three adoptees, Avigail Idan, was among more than 250 people taken hostage during the attack led by the Palestinian militant group. She was released in November last year, although around 100 people remain detained as the war between Israel and Hamas, sparked by the attack, continues.
He was three years old at the time of the attack, in which his parents were among the 1,200 people killed. Her older siblings, Michael and Amalia, were hiding in a closet in their kibbutz home, with their mother lying lifeless on the floor nearby.
The Mor also lived on the kibbutz in southern Israel at the time and were rescued from their home the day after the attack. Now they live far away, in Bnei Dror, a farming village near the Mediterranean coast.
“The conversation here at home is very open. Let’s talk about your parents. Let’s not forget them for a moment,” Leron Mor said. “We look at the photos together. And they are present in our lives.”
Avigail also has US citizenship and she and her family met US President Joe Biden at the White House in April.
“He was just compassionate and loving and caring,” Leron Mor said. “We told him about the people, about our friends, who are still there and about all the hostages. We asked him to do everything possible to get them out of there, because that’s the only important thing right now. There’s no it’s nothing.” more important than that.”
Source: Terra
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