This Wednesday, the deaths of five members of a Portuguese-Israeli family were confirmed. They are family members of Tahir Bira, a 21-year-old girl whose death was confirmed on Sunday.
Orin (53) and Jazmin Bira, Tahir’s parents, Tahel Bira, the couple’s youngest daughter, and Tal Bira, Orin’s brother, were killed in the shelter where they were hiding, he said. CM Israeli community of Porto. According to sources close to the family, they were victims of grenades thrown into the shelter. According to them, “the bodies were identified with great difficulty.”
A The Israeli community of Porto confirmed morning Post that Orin and Tahir Bira had Portuguese citizenship. They were descendants of a “traditional Sephardic family from the Balkans, in the former Yugoslavia, with the surnames Paredes/Pardess, with customary Ladino practices that mix words from Portuguese, Castilian, Turkish, Greek and Hebrew,” they explain.
Since the beginning of the war, nine Portuguese-Israelis have died in Israel: Gilad Ben Yehuda (28 years old), Liraz Assoulin Shitrit (38 years old), Gila Peled Cohen (58 years old), Daniel Peled (28 years old), son of Gila Cohen, Nevo Arad (25 years old), Doreen Atias (22 years old), Rotem Neiman Kadosh (25 years old), as well as Orin and Tahir Bira.
A The Comunidade Israelita do Porto also confirms that three Portuguese descendants are still missing in Israel: Idan Shtivi (28 years old), Moshe Saadian (26 years old) and Offer Caldaron (52 years old).
Portuguese-Israeli player Menachem Hillel Ben Khalifa (22 years old) was seriously injured.
Niv Raviv, 27, was also killed in Israel. “The young man was in the process of obtaining citizenship from a traditional Moroccan Sephardic family,” Comunidade Israelita do Porto reported.
According to the Law of Return, the government can grant Portuguese citizenship by naturalization to “descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews by demonstrating a tradition of belonging to the Sephardic community of Portuguese origin based on proven objective requirements of connection with Portugal, namely surnames.” , family language, direct or collateral origin.”
Author: Philippa Novais This João Saramago
Source: CM Jornal
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