Thousands of people attended the funeral of fallen hostage IDF Warrant Officer (res.) Lior Rudaeff, an emergency service volunteer who died defending Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on Oct. 7, 2023.

The funeral procession began at Camp Shura, the Military Rabbinate headquarters, located near Ramla in central Israel, which serves as the National Center for the Treatment of Fallen Soldiers of Israel.

Teams from Magen David Adom, the emergency medical service where Rudaeff volunteered for years as an ambulance driver, accompanied a convoy that carried his remains to the cemetery in Nir Yitzhak.

Yaffa, Rudaeff’s widow, eulogized him: “It is a relief that you are finally receiving a proper burial in the soil you defended and fought for. This is not the ending I prayed for,” Maariv reported.

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