The couple killed in Wednesday’s rocket barrage to the northern Israeli city Kiryat Shmona are Revital Yehud, 45, and Dvir Sharvit, 43. The couple moved to Kiryat Shmona just two years ago.
It is unclear why the couple did not leave the city, despite the evacuation order. Yehud and Sharvit were among about three thousand people who currently stay in Kiryat Shmona, of the town’s 24 thousand population.
‘People stay either for ideological reasons, or because they are too old, or because they do not want to be in a hotel,’ Igal Tzipori, rabbi of Chabad house of Kiryat Shmona, told TPS-IL. ‘Some of the people left soon after the war started on October 7 last year, but then came back.’
The death of Yehud and Sharvit marked the first deadly attack on civilians since the start of the ground operation of Israeli Defense Forces in Lebanon on October 1.