It is early morning in the fields of Nir Banim, a moshav in south-central Israel. A few early risers jog along the paths; a farmer in an off-road vehicle heads out to his fields. Every so often, a helicopter passes overhead, heading toward Gaza. A metallic rasp from the community’s cemetery breaks the rural idyll. Ron and Maayan Kehati sit beside a mound of stones, watching a friend, on all fours, carve the Hebrew letters gimel, vav and resh into a stone. This is the grave of their son Gur, a Golani Brigade medic killed at age 20 in southern Lebanon in November 2024, during Israel’s war with Hezbollah.
