One of the abducted casualties identified at the Institute of Forensic Medicine is Amiram Cooper. This was announced by Kibbutz Nir Oz. “Amiram Cooper (85), one of the founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz, who was kidnapped on October 7 and murdered in captivity in Gaza, was an economist, farmer and poet, a loving and devoted family man, married to Nurit, father to Rotem, Ravit, Lotan and Yisraelik, and grandfather to 11 grandchildren. Together with his Nahal comrades, he was among the pioneers and founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz and saw the settlement of the western Negev as his life’s mission,” the statement said.