Hundreds of people and numerous associations gathered in Rome to remember Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the young Israeli mother and her two children who were abducted by Hamas on October 7 and whose bodies were returned to Israel last week. In their memory, the Great Synagogue in Rome was lit orange on Monday and participants brought something orange, the color that has become the symbol of the two red-haired littleboys. \u201cWe have never seen before what Hamas has done,\u201d said Victor Fadlun, President of Rome\u2019s Jewish Community. \u201cA mother torn from her home, in front of the terrorists\u2019 cameras, with her two children, four years and nine months old, in her arms. A mother who tries to cover them with a white veil, in a last attempt not to allow her children to see the evil, the horror that leads them to a destiny.\u201d Fadlun called on Europe and Italy \u201cto wake up,\u201d noting that part \u201cof public opinion, opinion leaders, and politicians\u201d treat Israel with culpable indifference. Indifference, Fadlun said, is \u201cthe opposite of love, indifference is a choice,\u201d and \u201cto leave alone the only democracy in the Middle East alone in a struggle that concerns all of us about Western and European values means abandoning it to its future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"