Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Thursday that a second New Jersey man was killed in the Hamas attack on Israel.
Lior Abramov, a 20-year-old native from Hopewell, moved to Israel last year to join the military and become a DJ, Murphy said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“My only son, the love of my life, passed away. The world stopped,” Abramov’s mother wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday, translated from Hebrew.
“Our prayers are with his family as they grieve this unimaginable loss,” Murphy wrote.
On Wednesday, state officials announced the killing of another New Jersey native in the attack, 20-year-old Itay Glisko.
Federal officials said earlier this week that 27 U.S. citizens were killed in the attacks and 14 more remained unaccounted for. Officials have not released an updated count as of Friday.
“We mourn for these young men,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in an interview on WNYC. “We mourn for all of the individuals, the innocent civilians now caught up in the horrors of war.”
Several tristate area natives still remain missing, including Edan Alexander, a Tenafly High School graduate. At the time of the attack, Alexander was a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces near the Gaza border.
A Long Island family received confirmation on Friday that their 21-year-old son, Omer Neutra, is being held hostage by Hamas, according to The New York Post. Mayor Eric Adams met with Neutra’s parents this week. Neutra is a tank commander in the Israeli army.
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