Ms Nimrodi said she was at her home near Tel Aviv when she received a message from Tamir early on 7 October 2023 from his post at the northern side of the Gaza border.
“He said ‘there are rockets and it’s non-stop’,” she recalled.
Tamir told her he would return soon to the family home, as he usually would during such moments because of his non-combat role.
“I told him to take good care of himself and text me whenever he can and he said he would try. Those were the last words between us. It was 06:49 in the morning, and I found out later on that 20 minutes after our last message he was taken away,” she said.
She has been lobbying for her son’s return, including at rallies with other hostage families.
But she said there were also days when she “can’t get out of bed”.
“I try to listen to my body – what can I do? How much strength do I have?”
The momentum behind the peace plan has brought some hope for the remaining hostage families that their loved ones could soon be returned home.
Ms Nimrodi joined tens of thousands of people – including the families of hostages, and former hostages themselves – who had gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to call for the deal to be implemented.
She wore a T-shirt with her son’s photo on the front, smiling and bespectacled.
“I believe in this deal, and I believe that Trump will not let this slip away,” she said, as she called on Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “do the right thing – bring the hostages home and bring peace to this region”.
She said that when she tried to sleep that night, she would be met with the “terrified look” in her son’s eyes as he was abducted, which plays in her head every day.
“To hope for two years – it’s absolutely exhausting.”