Noa Marciano

Noa Marciano was born in 2004 in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut

Noa Marciano was born on 12 October 2004 in Modi'in, the eldest child of Adi and Avi. She had three younger siblings, Yuval, Itay and Hadar, and her family was of Moroccan descent.

She attended Ilan Ramon elementary school and finished high school at Ironi Gimel Motta Gur in Modi'in, studying geography, cyber and theater. She volunteered as a guide in the Shelach youth movement and received an award and a scholarship from the mayor of Modi'in.

She enlisted in the IDF on 16 April 2023 and trained as a lookout. She was posted to the 414th Battalion of the Border Protection Corps at the Nahal Oz base near Gaza. Her parents said she told them that warnings from the lookouts about Hamas activity were not taken seriously.

On 7 October 2023 Hamas militants overran the base and abducted her alive to Gaza. On 13 November 2023 Hamas released a video of her alive and then of her body. The IDF said she was wounded in an Israeli strike and then murdered at Al-Shifa Hospital, and her body was recovered and buried in Israel.