Survivors From Ravaged Kibbutz Be’eri Recall Horrors of October 7
Never in his wildest nightmares did Ilya Taraschansky imagine the horrors awaiting his family on that deadly Saturday morning.
When Ilya Taraschansky points at his son’s name on the silver cover of a newly inaugurated Torah scroll in Kibbutz Be’eri’s synagogue, he tears up. Mr. Taraschansky, 47, still cannot fathom that his 15-year-old son was brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 massacre that claimed the lives of 1,200 Israelis including 100 residents of Kibbutz Be’eri.
A resident of Kibbutz Be’eri for nearly 30 years, Mr. Taraschansky — who is currently living in Tel Aviv — told the New York Sun that never in his wildest nightmares did he imagine the horrors awaiting his family on that deadly Saturday morning. “No one on this kibbutz ever walked around armed,” he explained. “We believed we were living in a peaceful, pastoral paradise.”
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