BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY: Michal Halev is completely shattered after news that her son was killed by Hamas militants during a sneak attack. The mother is now begging the world to “stop all the wars.”
“In my name, I want no vengeance,” she said in a short video message. Laor Abramov, a former New Jersey resident, was kidnapped and killed by terrorists, who attacked a rave near the Gaza Strip on October 7.
Michal Halev begs the world to end all wars
Michal Halev, Laor's mother, made a video message appealing to the world to stop harboring hatred. "I am begging the world, stop all the wars, stop killing people, stop killing babies,” Halev continued, “War is not the answer. War is not how you fix things."
She added, “This country, Israel, is going through horror, and I know my other country, America, is going through horror.”
“And I know the mothers in Gaza are going through horror, and I know that people in Ukraine and in all the world are going through their own horrors," she said.
The emotional mother broke down during her 3-minute clip, “The whole world unite to heal those children that they won’t grow up to be haters, that they grow up to be lovers, gentle lovers like my gentle giant,” she said. “And that they will have a life. They will grow up and fulfill their dreams and marry the girl they love.”
What did Laor Abramov say on his last call home?
The video was shared on Tuesday, October 17, by HeadStart, an Israeli crowdfunding group.
"I am going into a missile shelter, a bomb shelter, and don’t worry,’” he told his family over the phone. “I’m not going to be able to speak because it’s very noisy.” One survivor, who was in the same shelter shared that Abramov was put in a pickup truck and taken away.
Michal said in the video, “I’ve been broken now for a few days and I will remain broken for the rest of my life.”
“But I managed to catch one breath and I want to use it to talk to the world because I hear voices of people wanting vengeance and of people wanting to go kill the monsters, and I want to say that, in my name, I want no vengeance,” the grieving mother said.
Yael Abramov, the victim's aunt told NYP, “He phoned his dad in the morning — my brother — in the morning around 7:30, saying, ‘People are shooting at us. I am going into a missile shelter, a bomb shelter, and don’t worry. I’m not going to be able to speak because it’s very noisy.' After that, we didn’t know anything that was going on."
“There was no contact, couldn’t reach his phone. There was just horror stories of what’s going on there," she continued.
