His wife, Liliach Le Havron, disappeared with him from the Beeri kibbutz where 108 bodies were found.
Kipnis was identified from the DNA of one of the victims.
There is no news of his wife yet.
The other Italo-Israeli missing and believed to be among Hamas’s hostages is Nir Forti, a young man whose family said he was shot in the chest before disappearing after a rave party near the Gaza border was attacked.
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