Ofir Engel (17) from Kibbutz Ramat Rachel was abducted from the Sharabi family home in Bari. His father Yoav recently told Israel Hayom: "Ofir has several loves - the first to play basketball. Over the years he was an active basketball player in Hapoel Jerusalem. Ofir loves to travel - last June we both did a big trek in Slovenia. Another common love of ours is paddle boarding, we have two surfboards at home and on weekends we used to go surfing. We're father and son and good friends, and I can't wait for him to come home so we can surf together again."
In addition to his father, his mother Sharon and two other sisters are waiting at home for Ofir, along with family and friends. On the Saturday he was kidnapped, he was staying with the Sharabi family in Bari. His mother says: "At noon we were in contact with the family, who were in the safe room. At a certain point, the connection was cut off, and in the evening, the mother of a friend of Ofir's called and told us that terrorists had taken them out of the safe room, led them along the kibbutz paths and in the end kidnapped the boys – they put the father of the family, Yossi Sharabi, our Ofir and others in a car."
Since Ofir was kidnapped, they have stopped working for the Engel family, and they are trying to work for his release in every possible way: "We expect the government to bring Ofir and the other abductees home now. With each passing day, the price we pay increases," Yoav emphasizes painfully.
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