Eden and Hen raise children After their fathers' deaths

Oct 7, 2023

Yifat Amiel follows Eden Abergil and Hen Assulin raising children after their partners were killed on October 7. Eden recalls discovering pregnancy after Eliran's shiva, the boy's name chosen together during fertility treatment, and Ari Yehuda's birth, placed by the report nine months after Eliran's death. Hen recalls being eight months pregnant with a 14-month-old daughter when Mivtachim security coordinator Dan went out to fight, and Eliya's birth two months after his death, in the same hospital room as her first delivery. The feature reconstructs Dan's final messages and the Mivtachim defense, and Eliran's fatal Be'eri charge after an RPG hit his police unit; relatives' beliefs about final thoughts remain attributed. It follows childcare, relocation, memorial objects, grief and painful public reactions. Exact birth dates are not supplied.

Kan recounts Mivtachim security coordinator Dan Assulin going out during the first October 7 alerts while Hen sheltered pregnant with their daughter. His recorded messages place him in the moshav, and Hen says he stopped replying around 08:30. At the scene, successor and friend Brett Isaacson says the five men who fought and died saved Mivtachim; Hen reflects on finding connection without knowing Dan's final thoughts. This is the original fatal defense, distinct from his son's later birth.