Ori Ansbacher was a happy teenager who liked to write poetry amidst the calm of the forest. But on February 7, a Palestinian terrorist extinguished her light forever.
Ori was brutally murdered in the Ein Yael forest in southern Jerusalem, close to the center for at-risk youth at which she worked.
Last week, more than 6,000 Israelis marched in Jerusalem to express their outrage over Ori’s murder. Also in attendance were a number of well-known Israeli singers, with performances by Ehud Banai, the Shalva Band, Yuval Dayan, Micha Shitrit, and Amir Benayoun.
Shlomi Shabat, however, presented the most moving tribute of the evening. He performed a song called “A World of Peace”, setting music to the words of one of Ori’s poems. You can watch his emotional performance above.
Previously, former MK Dov Lipman posted a video on Facebook that he filmed at the Ansbacher home during the week of shiva. In it, a number of Ori’s neighbors and friends perform a different version of the same poem. “Watch, peer into Ori’s soul, and understand the depth of the tragedy,” Lipman wrote.
May her memory be a blessing.