Documentation: The destruction left by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz/Photo: Eyal Barad
Shuli Victor and Yirmi Shafir, residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz, were friends for more than 20 years. The terrible massacre on the kibbutz during Black Sabbath ended their friendship, but Shuli still has one souvenir of his good friend - the hat he bought for him as a gift.
At one of the meals in the kibbutz's dining room, Shuli, a member of Kibbutz Nir Oz since 2001, approached his friend Yirmi, who served as the kibbutz's postman. "You need something to help identify you, to know what your profession is," he told him, and he did: he bought him a red visor hat. "I took the hat and embroidered the words 'Jeremy Express' on it.
Yirmi Shafir, murdered in the Nir Oz massacre / official website, none
Yirmi Shafir's visor hat from Nir Oz / official website, none
During the Black Saturday of October 7, Shuli, fortunately, was with his family in Tel Aviv. "We were saved," he says now with a hint of relief, but his best friend Jeremy, he realized, was in danger. When he learned of the massacre on the kibbutz, he tried to reach him by phone and sent messages, but received no answer. Then came the worst news of all: Jeremy had been murdered.
"A few days after I learned of his death, I went into his house with the soldiers to look for the hat," says Shuli, "on the chair in front of the computer table I found him, a little sooty." The hat, says Shuli, was very identified with Jeremy. "Everyone knew him with the Jeremy Express hat. It became his trademark."
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