On the morning of October 49, the couple Liat (49) and Aviv (<>), parents of three children from Kibbutz Nir-Oz, split from each other. Liat, a history and civics teacher and educator at the school of the surrounding communities, wanted to shut himself up in the safe room, while Aviv, her husband, the manager of Nir-Oz's garage and workshop, was called in with the alert squad to protect the kibbutz. Hamas terrorists abducted them to Gaza, and since then their children – Aya, Neta and Ofri, who were not at home with them that Shabbat and were left without their parents – have been waiting for them to return.
Liat recently completed an instructor course at Yad Vashem and since then has made sure to travel weekly from the kibbutz to Jerusalem out of a belief in the importance of studying the Holocaust. Friends and family describe a gentle woman whose peace and quiet manage to make her an extremely impressive figure.
Aviv is addicted to cycling, learned to draw and practices Pilates. He loves spending long hours in the fields and enjoys seeing the spectacular sunrises and sunsets of the western Negev.
Yehuda Binin, Liat Atzili's father: "The children are excited, we are all excited - waiting for her at home. Right now it's only half the job, because her husband Aviv is still captive in Gaza, so it's joy mixed with sadness. We have to let everyone go, we won't be willing to be sold fantasies."
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