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The Jewish Community of Porto has just announced that the massacre of October 7th resulted in twenty hostages and seventeen deaths with links to Portugal. The revelation occurs in the same week that the heads of the prosecution service from Portugal, Germany, the US, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, and Estonia — as well as representatives from the Japanese, Australian and Danish embassies — meet with relatives of those killed and taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 and visited towns and communities in the Gaza border region where the terror group carried out its deadly attack.

Update on victims.

HOSTAGES IN CAPTIVITY

- Four Portuguese

- Ten people hoping to obtain nationality

HOSTAGES RELEASED

- A Portuguese

- Five people with links to Portugal

DEAD

- Ten Portuguese

- Seven people with links to Portugal

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HOSTAGES IN CAPTIVITY

- Four Portuguese

Idan Shtivi (28 years old).

Son of Dali Oron (Naftali Benveniste) of Bulgarian family origin. Family names present in the ancient communities of Bulgaria, Thessaloniki ("Kahal Kadosh Portugal", "Kahal Kadosh Lisbon", "Kahal Kadosh Évora"), İzmir ("Kahal Kadosh Portugal" and institution "Endow the Orphans"), Morocco, Tunisia, Hamburg, Livorno, and others.

Dror Or (48 years old).

Son of Youval Ermoza of an Argentine family from the former Ottoman Empire. The Ermoza Sephardic family and its Ladino inspired the famous Netflix series "Beauty Queen of Jerusalem".

Offer Kalderon (52 years old).

Son of David Kalderon, from a traditional Sephardic family of the former Ottoman Empire, particularly Greece. There are records of this family in the synagogues and Portuguese institutions that existed in Thessaloniki: the "Kahal Kadosh Portugal", the "Kahal Kadosh Lisbon", the "Kahal Kadosh Évora", the "Portugal Velha" and others.

Moshe Saadyan (26 years old).

Son of Vered Moshe (Zubi), from a traditional Sephardic family of the former Ottoman Empire, specifically in Turkey and the former Palestine, married with the Moroccan Sephardic family surnamed Bouskila.

- Ten people hoping to obtain nationality

Segev Halfon (26 years old)

Son of Jacob Cobi Halfon, from a traditional Sephardic family of Morocco. The surname Halfon, widely used by Jews in Portugal in the 14th and 15th centuries, spread not only throughout Morocco but the Mediterranean. There are records of this family on wedding lists of the Sephardic community of Tunis in the 18th century.

Omer Shem Tov (22 years old)

Son of Malki Shem Tov Hazan (Portuguese), from a traditional Sephardic family of Morocco. There are records of this family in the “Portugal” plot of the Jewish community of Rabat in Tangiers.

Yiftam Dan Tweg (28 years old)

Son of Shoshana Tomer Avraham, from a traditional Sephardic family of the former Ottoman Empire. There are records of this family, for instance, in Kahal Kaddosh Portugal in Edirne.

Almog Sarusi (27 years old)

Son of Yigal Sarusi, from a traditional Sephardic family of the Jewish community of Libya which between the 16th and 17th centuries took in Jews from Sepharad, who never created their own institutions. This led to thousands of weddings with the local inhabitants which raised the latter’s social and cultural standards, resulting in a community linked by blood and culture.

Tsachi Eitan (49 years old)

Daughter of David Idan Eini, from a traditional Sephardic family of the former Ottoman Empire. There are records of this family in Kahal Kaddosh Portugal in Smyrna, Salonika and other places.

Maya Regev Gerby (22 years old)

Daughter of Ilan Regev Gerby, from a traditional Sephardic family of the Mediterranean, mostly from Libya and Livorno, where there was a resident population that spoke Portuguese (a trade language) until the late 18th century, after which it was replaced with Italian.

Itay Regev Gerby (19 years old)

Daughter of Ilan Regev Gerby, from a traditional Sephardic family of the Mediterranean, mostly from Libya and Livorno, where there was a resident population that spoke Portuguese (a trade language) until the late 18th century, after which it was replaced with Italian.

Ran Guili (25 years old)

Son of Tali Ziuni Nada, from a traditional Sephardic family of the Jewish community of Egypt which between the 16th and 17th centuries took in Jews from Sepharad, who never created their own institutions. This led to thousands of weddings with the local inhabitants which raised the latter’s social and cultural standards, resulting in a community linked by blood and culture

Moran Stela Yanai (41 years old)

Daughter of Raymonde Yanai Moyal Lankri, from a traditional Sephardic family of Morocco. There are records of this family in the “Portugal” plot of the Jewish community of Rabat in Tangiers.

Or Levy (33 years old)

Son of Abraham Levy, from a traditional Sephardic family of the Jewish community of Turkey, which still speak Ladino today.Moshe Levy (75), Or’s uncle, is Portuguese.

HOSTAGES RELEASED

- A Portuguese

Adina Moshe (Galante) (72 years old). From a family of the traditional Sephardic community of the former Ottoman Empire, mainly Turkey. There are records of this family in the synagogues and Portuguese institutions that existed in Smyrne, Edirne, and others, such as the "Kahal Kadosh Portugal".

- Five people with links to Portugal

Alma Or (age 17), daughter of Dror Or Ermoza. The Ermoza Sephardic family and its Ladino inspired the famous Netflix series "Beauty Queen of Jerusalem".

Noam Or (age 15), daughter of Dror Or.

Liam Or (23 years old), nephew of Dror Or.

Sahar Kalderon (age 16). Daughter of Ofer Kalderon, from a Greek Sephardic family. There are records of this family in Kahal Kadosh Portugal of Salonika.

Erez Kalderon (age 12). Son of Ofer Kalderon.

DEAD

- Ten Portuguese

Yossi Sharabi (53 years old).

Son of a Moroccan father, surnamed Turgeman, and a Moroccan mother, surnamed Sharabi. Members of the Turgeman family returned to Portugal, from Morocco and Gibraltar, in the 19th and 20th centuries, and are buried in Lisbon's Jewish cemetery."

Gilad Ben Yehuda (28 years old).

Son of Sochi Gali Gavriel Eskenazi from a traditional Turkish Sephardic family, who for centuries preserved the use of the Ladino language. There are records of this family in the Portuguese synagogues of Edirne and Adrianople ("Kahal Kadosh" Portugal and "Kahal Kadosh" Évora), as well as in the Jewish institutions of Smyrna (the "Kahal Kadosh Portugal") and the institution "Endow the Orphans".

Liraz Assulin Shitrit (38 years old).

She was the daughter of Meir Assulin and Rikva Shitrit, from traditional Sephardic families in Morocco. Records of this family extend to North African communities, including in the Portugal plot in the Jewish cemetery of Rabat, in Tangier.

Gila Peled Cohen (58 years old).

From a traditional Sephardic family in Tunis. There are records of this family in the lists of ketubot (marriage contracts) from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, of the Portuguese Sephardic community of Tunis.

Daniel Peled (28 years old).

Son of Gila Cohen.

Nevo Arad (25 years old).

Son of Ronen Arad Edry from a traditional Moroccan Sephardic family. There are records of this family in numerous local communities, as well as in the Portugal plot of the Jewish cemetery of Rabat, in Tangier.

Dorin Atias (22 years old).

Family surnames present in Jewish communities of Portuguese origin in Izmir, Thessaloniki, Bulgaria, Livorno and others. In the form Athias, the surname is common among the Jews who, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, coming from Gibraltar and Morocco, returned to Portugal, and were buried in the British cemetery of Estrela and in the Jewish cemeteries of Lisbon and Faro.

Rotem Neumann Kadosh (25 years old).

He is a descendant of Sephardic Jews of Portuguese origin, through his father and mother, from traditional Sephardic families in the Mediterranean and the Balkans.

Orin Bira (53 years old).

Son of Simcha Kasorlla from a traditional Sephardic family in the Balkans, in the former Yugoslavia, surnamed Paredes/Pardess, with a habitual use of Ladino including words from the Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Greek and Hebrew languages.

Tair Bira (21 years old),

Orin's daughter.

- Seven people with links to Portugal

Ravid Arie Katz (51 years old).

[Body was not found but allegedly died.] In the process of obtaining nationality. Descendant of Sephardic Jews from the former Ottoman Empire. The name Arie also appears in the lists of names of Jews who belonged to the Portuguese synagogue of the Jewish community of the city of Izmir in Turkey, the "Kahal Kadosh Portugal", in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and to the institution of "Dowling" the orphans of the Portuguese congregation of Smyrna, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Niv Raviv (27 years old).

From a traditional Moroccan Sephardic family, like others described above.

Said Moshe (75 years old), husband of Adina Moshe, a Portuguese woman from a traditional family of the Sephardic community in Turkey.

Tal Bira, brother of Orin Bira.

Jazmin Bira, wife of Orin Bira.

Tahel Bira, minor daughter of Orin Bira.

Hana Or, wife of Dror Or, from an Argentine family from the former Ottoman Empire.

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Last week, the Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant signaled the Israel Defense Forces will keep fighting in the Gaza Strip until Hamas’s “significant military and governing capabilities” are eliminated and the 130-plus hostages held captive by the terror group are returned. “If the fate of Hamas is not complete dismantlement, we will not be able to live in the State of Israel,” Gallant stated.