Sep

3 2025

Our Family's Story – A Conversation with Jacqui Vital

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Paperny Family JCC 1607 90 Avenue SW
Calgary, AB T2V 4V7
403-253-8600
https://calgaryjcc.com

Contact Diana Kalef
403-444-3154
dkalef@jewishcalgary.org

Adi Vital-Kaploun z”l was a dual citizen of Israel and Canada. She grew up spending her summers in Ottawa with her extended family. Adi was a dancer, a saxophonist, a basketball player. She was a soldier, an engineer in cybersecurity,
an environmental scientist in desert studies and solar energy. Adi was a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother.

She was 33 years old when terrorists invaded her home on Kibbutz Holit. She somehow managed to save the lives of her husband, father, and two young children, aged four and six months. Before she was murdered, Adi killed one of the terrorists herself.

Adi’s mom, Jacqui, is coming to share Adi’s harrowing and inspiring story. Come and bear witness to the spirit of a young woman, who could do anything – and chose to be a desert farmer – raising her young children on the Gaza border.

Adi’s story is the story of her generation of Israelis.