How a playwright transformed a sister’s loss into art for children

Yuval Naim, 28, has written a children's play, Out of Three, One is Missing, to process the grief of losing her younger sister, St.-Sgt. Agam Naim, the first female IDF soldier killed in the Gaza ground operation on September 17, 2024. The play uses a metaphor of three bees to explore different ways of coping with loss.

Yuval Naim, a 28-year-old playwright from Jaffa, has channeled the grief of losing her younger sister, St.-Sgt. Agam Naim, into a children's play titled Out of Three, One is Missing. Agam Naim, a combat paramedic, was killed on September 17, 2024, in Rafah's Tel Sultan neighborhood when an explosive device detonated. She was the first female IDF soldier killed during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip. The play uses a metaphor of three bees to explore the different ways people cope with loss. Naim hopes to bring the play to major children's theaters and schools, providing children with a safe space to understand their own emotional worlds.