STAFF SGT. ARIEL TSYM • SGT. 1ST CLASS (RES.) ASAF PINHAS TUBUL • AVIDAN TURGEMAN • DUDI TURGEMAN • SHOHAM LIA TURGEMAN • YIFTAH TWIG • ADIEL TWITO 
• CAPT. EYAL MEVORACH TWITO • OFIR TZARFATI • LT. COL. YEHONATAN TZOR • STAFF SGT. ADI TZUR • ELIZUR TZURIEL HAJBI • OFER UDI • CHUM UDUM • BEN URI • 
ARIEH UZAN • ELIYAHU UZAN • EYAL UZAN • DANIEL VADAI • SGT. LIEL VAINSHTEIN • MICHAEL VAKNIN • OREN AHARON VAKNIN • STAFF SGT. NACHMAN MEIR HAIM 
VAKNIN • LIMOR VAKNIN PERMUTTER • BRONA VALENO • STAFF SGT. AMICHAY YAACOV VANINO • LORI VARDI • IGAL VAX • WARRANT OFFICER (RES.) AMIT VAX • CAPT. 
(RES.) DENIS KROKHMALOV VEKSLER • ALON VERBER • KARIN VERNIKOV • AVIV VERTHEIM • DORIT VERTHEIM • SIMON VIGDORGAZ • YAHAV VINER • STAFF SGT. 
MATAN VINOGRADOV • ADI VITEL KAPLON • MASTER SGT. (RES.) ISRAEL AMICHAY VITZEN • MASTER SGT. ELKANA VIZEL • JOHNNY WADEEA IBRAHIM • YOSSEF WAHAB 
• MOSHE WAHADI • SGT. 1ST CLASS SIVAN WAIL • CAPT. BENI WAIS • MASTER SGT. (RES.) DAN WAJDENBAUM • DANIEL WALDMAN • RABBI ELIMELECH WASSERMAN • 
RON WEINBERG • JUDY WEINSTEIN-HAGGAI • SENIOR STAFF SGT. MAJ. (RES.) ELON WEIS • STAFF SGT. ROEY WEISER • REUVEN WEISMAN • AMIR WEISS • ILAN WEISS • 
MATTI WEISS • SHMUEL SHMULIK WEISS • YEHUDIT WEISS • ALINA WEISSBERG • LIOR WEIZMANN • DANI WOBAK • ZISHOM WOHN • CAPT. OMER WOLF • STAFF-SGT. 
ROEI WOLF • CAPT. (RES.) ARIEL MORDECHAY WOLLFSTAL • ZISHON WON • STAFF SGT. AVRAHAM WOVAGEN • SHUVAL YA’AKOV • ILAN MOSHE YAAKOV • YAIR YAAKOV 
• STAFF SGT. ORIYA YAAKOV • HANAN YABLONKA • STAFF SGT. EFRAIM YACHMAN • MAJOR (RES.) CHEN YAHALOM • MARIA YAHENGILOV • YIFTAH YAHENGILOV • DAVID 
YAIR • ORI YAISH • SGT. 1ST CLASS (RES.) ORI YAISH • SAN AMNON YAKOBOV • CPL. SHIRAT YAM AMAR • SGT. BAR YANKILOV • CAPT. (RES.) ELIYA YANOVSKY • STAFF 
SGT. DOR YARHI YARHI • SHIR YARON • SGT. MAJ. (RES.) OFIR MORDECHAI YARON • SHIRAZ-SHIRAN YASHMIRENI(TAMAM) • SGT. MAJ. (RES.) AKIVA YASINSKIY • SGT. 
MAJ. RAN YAVETZ • CAPT. YIFTAH YAVETZ • ROSA YEDGAROV • YURI YEDGAROV • SGT. MAJ. (RES.) ELIRAN YEGER • MASTER SGT. (RES.) ITAY YEHOSHUA • MAJ. IDO 

YEHOSHUA • DOLEV YEHUD • SGT. 1ST CLASS (RES.) ELKANA YEHUDA • STAFF-SGT. ITAY YEHUDA • RON YEHUDAI • SGT. MAJ. 
(RES.) DENNIS YEKIMOV • SGT. OFIR YERUCHIN • EDEN YERUSHALMI • MASTER SGT. (RES.) HAYIM YESHURUN KATSMAN • 
BILHAH YINON • YA’AKOV YINON • BILHA YINON • MAI YITZHAKI • YEHUDIT YITZHAKI • MICHAEL YOAV • TIANCHAI 
YODTONGDI • LT. YUVAL YOFFE • SGT. BOAZ MENACHE YOGGEV • SGT. BENYAMIN GAVRIEL YONA • SGT. NATHANEL YOUNG 
• CAPTAIN ISRAEL YUDKIN • ITAI ZA’AFRANI • NOY TIFERET ZA’AFRANI • EDEN ZACHARIA • OMER ZADIKEVITCH • RONIT 
HODAYA ZAGADON • YONATAN ZAHAVI • SGT. ILAI ZAIR • ETTI ZAK • ITAI ZAK • SAGI ZAK • STAFF SGT. DVIR ZAKAI • AVI 
ZAKUTO • ARIEH ZALMANOVITCH • HILLEL ZALMANOVITCH • SGT. MAJ. (RES.) SHALEV ZALTSMAN • CHIEF INSPECTOR ARNON 
ZAMORA • NOA ZANDER • CHI ZANHUNG • MICHAL ZARBIALOV • CAPT. RON ZARFATI • YONATAN ZEIDMAN • YITZHAK ZEIGER 
• SGT. MAJ. (RES.) SHACHAR ZEMACH • ANDREI ZEMKOV • ZOYA ZEMKOV • MATAN ZENATI • MASTER SGT • (RES.) ARI YEHIEL 
ZENILMAN • HAI ZFATI • VLADIMIR ZHUKOV • MAJ. ARYEH SHLOMO ZIERING • CAPT. (RES.) YUVAL ZILBER • SGT. ELYAHU 
MOSHE ZIMBALIST • MAJ. (RES.) DOR ZIMEL • NIREL ZINI • STAFF SGT. OFIR ZIONI • CAPT. NERIYA ZISK • MAJ. ILAY ZISSER • 
EITAN ZIV • OR ZIV • MAJ. DR. YAIR ZLOOF • DALI ZOEO • BAR ZOHAR • HAIM ZOHAR • KESHET ZOHAR • TCHELET ZOHAR • 
YANIV ZOHAR • YASMIN ZOHAR • SGT. YARON ZOHAR • DAN ZOMER • KARIN ZOURNO • MOTTI ZOWERNMAN • STAFF SGT. 
IDO ELI ZRIHEN • CAPT. AMIR ZUR • SGT. 1ST CLASS (RES.) BEN ZUSSMAN

SEPT. 1

Sept. 1 – Hundreds 
of thousands of 
Israelis protest in 
the streets of Tel 
Aviv and other 
Israeli cities, calling 
for a ceasefire and 
return of remaining 
hostages. 

SEPT. 6

Sept. 6 — Turkish-
American activist 
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi 
was killed while 
participating in a 
protest against Israeli 
settlement expansion. 
The IDF later says 
that errant fire from 
its troops was the 
likely cause of her 
death. 

SEPT. 9

Sept. 9 — The 
IDF revealed 
after months of 
investigation 
that three Israeli 
hostages, Nik 
Beizer, Ron 
Sherman and Elia 
Toledano, were 
“mistakenly” killed 
in an IDF operation. 
 

SEPT. 10

Sept. 10 — Defense 
Minister Yoav Gallant 
declared that “Hamas as 
a military formation no 
longer exists.” However, 
Hamas and other 
Palestinian guerillas 
remain active.

Sept. 10 — Hamas 
executed six 
hostages the night 
before the IDF 
reached the tunnel 
where they were 
being held.

SEPT. 11

Sept. 11 – The 
UNWRA reported 
that more than half 
a million children 
in Gaza had been 
vaccinated against 
polio during Israeli 
military pause.

SEPT. 17

Sept. 17 – Pagers used by 
Hezbollah militants across 
Lebanon simultaneously 
exploded; a day later, 
walkie-talkies used by 
Hezbollah also explode. 
Overall, Lebanese 
authorities report that 42 
are killed and over 3,500 
are injured. Although Israel 
does not comment, it is 
widely assumed that the 
Mossad was responsible 
for the action. 

SEPT. 19

Sept. 19 — It is believed that 97 
of the 251 hostages abducted by 
Hamas on Oct. 7 remain in Gaza, 
including the bodies of at least 33 
confirmed dead by the IDF.
Along with the 105 civilians freed 
during a weeklong truce in late 
November, Hamas released 
four hostages before that. Eight 
hostages have been rescued 
by troops alive, and the bodies 
of 37 hostages have also been 
recovered, including three 
mistakenly killed by the military as 
they tried to escape their captors. 
Hamas is also holding two Israeli 
civilians who entered the Strip 
in 2014 and 2015, as well as the 
bodies of two IDF soldiers who 
were killed in 2014. 

SEPT. 22

Sept. 22 — 
Several people 
were hurt when 
Hezbollah 
launched more 
than 100 rockets 
and drones at 
northern Israel in 
waves of attacks.

SEPT. 23

Sept. 23 – After sending 
text messages and 
phone calls to Lebanese 
citizens who were 
housing Hezbollah 
rockets in their homes, 
giving them two hours’ 
notice that strikes were 
coming. The IAF made 
over 300 strikes into 
southern Lebanon as 
Hezbollah fired rockets 
on northern Israel. 

14 | OCTOBER 3 • 2024 

At the time this timeline was written, 
over 23,000 rockets have been fired at 
Israel since Oct. 7. There have been 
1,620 Israel deaths and 15,000 injured, 
including those serving in the IDF; 
86,000 Israelis have been displaced from 
their homes; at least 97 people of the 251 
taken hostage on Oct. 7 are believed to 
still be in Gaza, with around a third of 
them, or at least 33 people, believed to be 
dead. Victims’ names on these pages are 
current as of Sunday, Sept. 22. 
 

They are so loved. They are so missed. 
May their memory be a blessing.

OUR COMMUNITY
ON THE 
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