The Free Press · October 2026

Bar Asraf, 30, Found Dead at Grave of Friend Killed October 7

• On August 1, 2026, Lihi Asraf found her brother Bar Asraf, 30, dead on the grave of his best friend, Liron Barda, who was killed in the Nova music festival massacre on October 7, 2023; Barda is buried in Elkana, in the West Bank.
• Bar died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the heart.
• Lihi Asraf serves in a light infantry defense unit on Israel's border with the West Bank.

Reported in the original piece, based on the author's interviews with the family. Original headline: "The Israelis Who Never Left October 7 Behind".