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Lotan Abir, 24, was killed at a rave in southern Israel early Saturday, when Hamas militants stormed the event, his Salt Lake City rabbi said. Abir relocated to Utah in late 2022.Lotan Abir was attending a rave in southern Israel late Friday with a few other members of Utah’s Jewish community when the event came under fire early Saturday, Rabbi Avremi Zippel, with Chabad Lubavitch of Utah, said Tuesday.
Over 260 people were killed in the attack, and an undetermined amount were taken hostage, Two of the Utahns whom Abir went to the event with were able to escape, Zippel said, but Abir was later listed as missing. His family and friends were notified of his death Sunday. “He was the sort of person that you would want to call your friend,” Zippel said. “He ultimately gave up his life for the sake of our people at a rave while celebrating some of his greatest passions in life. ... Just a kind, sweet, fun-loving, innocent soul who was massacred by a terrorist.” The music festival attack is believed to be the worst civilian massacre in Israeli history, The Associated Press reported Monday, unfolding as attendees came together to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. It was part of a larger coordinated assault that began Saturday, with the Israeli military reporting over 1,000 people dead since. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu soon declared Israel was at war. Over 830 people have since been killed in Gaza and the West Bank,Abir first moved to Utah in late 2022, after he finished his military service in Israel, Zippel recalled. Abir had traveled back to Israel over the summer to attend a few events — including the August wedding of someone he’d befriended in Utah’s Jewish community, Zippel said. Leaders and members of Utah’s Jewish community — along with Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and other local and state leaders — plan to gather at“Many in our community have family and friends being called up from reserve duty to defend Israel on its southern border and prevent from any escalation in the north,” the United Jewish Federation of Utah wrote in an announcement about the Tuesday gathering. Gov. Spencer Cox on Monday also ordered flags at state facilities to be flown at half-staff through Friday ”in solidarity with the State of Israel and its people,” according to a post on X,James Huntsman on the LDS Church: Why he left it, sued it, and what he hopes to change in itDeadly bird flu reappears in US commercial poultry flocks in Utah and South Dakota
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