Long Island road named for Israeli-American Oct. 7 victim Omer Neutra: So appropriate

A section of road in the Long Island town where slain Israeli American hostage Omer Neutra grew up is being renamed after him.Nassau County legislators recently unanimously voted to change a stretch of Manetto Hill Road in Plainview to “Captain Omer Neutra Way,” Newsday reported.Along the newly named roadway is the Mid-Island Jewish Community Center, where Long Island’s Jewish community has rallied to demand the release of hostages taken during Hamas’ Oct.7, 2023, massacre in Israel.Neutra, 21, was serving as a platoon commander in the Israel Defense Force that day and believed to have been taken hostage, till it was revealed in December that he’d actually been killed Oct.

7.His body is believed to have been taken back to Gaza by the Palestinian terrorists and has yet to be returned.“We are appreciative of the Legislators for their moral clarity and honoring Omer in a way that will allow our neighbors to think of him every time they drive by the Mid-Island JCC,” Neutra’s parents said in a statement about the local road’s renaming.“It is so appropriate to have Omer’s name attached to a place where members of the community he loved have consistently gathered together since Oct.

7  to fight for the return of Omer and the other hostages,” they said.Neutra’s parents, Ronen and Orna, suffered in the agony of uncertainty for more than a year before learning the confirmation of their son’s murder.“My beautiful son, my strong 6-foot-2 big, smiley boy.…I pled for a sign of life.

I didn’t get any,” his grieving mother Orna said in December....