Moshe Ohayon, director of Project 929 – Bible Together – was murdered along with his son Eliad in the terrorist attack on Ofakim on Saturday.
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Ohayon, who in recent years led the initiative to connect Israelis to the Bible, and among other things, led the Sukkot project of dialogue and peace, was killed in the early hours of the morning in an attack in the city.
Rabbi Benny Lau published the news of the murder of the two men and eulogized them: "I recruited him to 929 in order to move this move into the field. I've learned over time that my job is mostly not to stand in his way. Let go and see how he motivates the whole team to do things without limits."
"When the deep crisis began over the past year, he led 929 to the center of Dialogue activity at all levels. The last project he led was the creation of hundreds of peace discourse sukkots throughout the country. He made the last sukkah with him and his wife Sarit in Ofakim. A fascinating night of Hoshana Rabbah with human encounters. At the end of the prayer of "Fatka Taba" for the coming year," the rabbi said.
The heavy destruction in Ofakim, the day after the fighting, photo: Ilya Yegorov
"The last picture I received from them was preparation for Simchat Torah in their home in Ofakim, hosted by a group of people with special needs and volunteers who came to accompany them. This is the routine of Sarit, Moshe, and their children. It was clear that as soon as the war broke out he would be there, on the front line. And now Moses and Eliad were found lying side by side. A father and son who jumped to the front because that's what they know how to do."
"On the one hand, it's so clear. If the enemy is in their home, who will greet him? And on the other hand it is incomprehensible. It can't be real that these huge hearts stopped beating. That this great wind has ceased to blow. We were left wilted. God will protect Sarit, the parents, the whole family, and us."
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