Brit football fan killed by Hamas weeks before taking son to first Man U game | UK News
A British-Israeli football fan was among those murdered in the Hamas attack on Be’eri in southern Israel.
Yonatan Rapoport was murdered in the Hamas attack on October 7 according to the BBC.
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The father-of-two, known to his friends as Yoni, leaves behind children Yosefi and Aluma.
He was a fan of the Premier League football team Manchester United and was planning to go to Old Trafford – the team’s home ground in north-west England – next month for his son’s first game there.
Mr Rapoport was one of seven Brits who have been confirmed to have been killed in the violence in Israel.
Others include mother and daughter Lianne and Yahel Sharabi, 20-year-old Nathanel Young, who served in the Israeli military and Jake Marlowe, who was working as a security guard at the Supernova music festival, where 260 people were killed when it was stormed by militants.
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