Bnei Dror, Israel:

Israeli couple Leron and Zoli Mor have similar tattoos on their arms exhibiting a procession of eight elephants, their tails and trunks intertwined.

The primary two are the mother and father and the six smaller ones behind them are the calves. The final three are even smaller than the remaining and are depicted in more energizing ink as a result of they had been added later.

The eight elephants characterize the Mor household. Leron and Zoli Mor have three kids of their very own and have adopted three others whose mother and father – certainly one of them Leron’s sister – had been killed within the assault by Hamas gunmen on Israel on Oct. 7 final yr.

“They had been 5,” Leron Mor mentioned on the household’s new residence within the northern Israeli village of Bnei Dror, pointing to that tattoo on her arm. “They usually had been joined by three extra.”

One of many three who had been adopted, Avigail Idan, was amongst greater than 250 individuals taken hostage through the assault led by the Palestinian militant group. She was launched final November although about 100 individuals are nonetheless in captivity because the Israel-Hamas battle triggered by the assault rages on.

She was aged three on the time of the assault, during which her mother and father had been amongst 1,200 individuals killed. Her older siblings, Michael and Amalia, hid in a cupboard at their residence in a kibbutz, their mom mendacity lifeless on the ground close by.

The Mors had been additionally residing within the kibbutz in southern Israel on the time and had been rescued from their residence the day after the assault. They now reside far-off in Bnei Dror, an agricultural village close to the Mediterranean coast.

“The dialog right here in the home could be very open. We discuss their mother and father. We don’t neglect about them for one second,” mentioned Leron Mor. “We have a look at footage collectively. And they’re current in our lives.”

Avigail additionally has U.S. citizenship, and he or she and the household met U.S. President Joe Biden on the White Home in April.

“He was merely compassionate and heat and caring,” Leron Mor mentioned. “We spoke to him in regards to the individuals, our associates, who’re nonetheless there and all of the hostages. We requested him to make each effort to get them out as a result of that is the one vital factor proper now. There may be nothing extra vital than that.”

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