Last year, Avner Ressel began a deeply personal tradition.
Every time he attends a rock or metal concert abroad, he wears a shirt honoring Ariel Bibas with the words: "Ariel would love this show."
Ariel "joined" him at Korn in Florence in 2025, at the Foo Fighters, and now at System of a Down in Milan. His message was simple:
"We carried on. We didn't forget." 🧡
Then came a response that gave those words even greater meaning.
Yarden Bibas replied:
"A small gesture, but immense in meaning!!!
Thank you so much, my brother. 🧡🤘🏻"
For Israelis, this is about far more than a concert shirt.
The Bibas family was kidnapped by Palestinians from their home on October 7 and held captive in Gaza. Shiri, Ariel, and baby Kfir were later murdered in captivity. The thought of what a mother, a four-year-old boy, and a baby endured during those months is almost impossible to bear.
Israel lives with this trauma every single day.
Yet people like Avner remind us of something remarkable. Memory does not have to become hatred. Grief does not have to erase our humanity. Instead of allowing evil to define us, we choose to carry those we lost with us.
A shirt. A concert. A song.
A little boy who loved music is remembered in the places he never had the chance to visit.
That is how we refuse to let terror have the final word.
🧡
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