Though the bodies of the two murdered young children were a DNA match, the body of their mother, Shiri, was not.
The institute's doctors are sometimes required to work day and night, travel from their homes to external sites, and often perform dozens of surgeries a week while dealing with very difficult sights.
The job of a forensic dentist is never easy, she says. It requires respectful dedication to the dead and their living relatives.
Gradually, the staggering scope of the tragedy unfolded, and the Forensic Institute staff realized that the task of identifying the vast number of bodies couldn't be accommodated at Abu Kabir.
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