Category: Israel

TEL AVIV – As the sun dipped over Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park and families of Hamas’ victims and hostages began trickling in for an Oct. 7 memorial, a siren blared, warning of a missile fired from Yemen that forced everyone to the ground, their hands shielding their heads. It was a stark reminder that the […]

RE’IM, Israel – At the site of the Nova festival near the Gaza border, the families of some 360 people murdered there gathered in the early morning light to mark the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre. Part of the last track played that day — a song, ironically, lasting 6:29, reflecting the exact […]

TEL AVIV — Unlike most of the victims’ families, Sigal Manzuri chose not to be in Israel on Oct. 7. Instead, she accepted an invitation to deliver a speech at the United Nations building in New York, marking the unveiling of a photography exhibition that commemorates the stories of 25 victims, including her two daughters, […]

TEL AVIV — Like so many in Israel, Adi Molcho has been mourning a personal loss for a full year. But unlike her grim compatriots, Adi’s husband did not die anywhere near Gaza. Instead, Gilad Molcho was killed two days after the Hamas-led onslaught on Oct. 7 when he was among the first casualties of […]

TEL AVIV — In the year since her murder by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, Amit Mann has taken on near-mythical status as the heroic paramedic who stayed behind in Kibbutz Beeri while rockets rained down in order to save lives; the woman with the voice of the angel who sang a duet posthumously with […]

This article is part of a series examining how Oct. 7 and its aftermath have changed the Jewish world. You can see the complete project here. While she was studying last year at Columbia University’s journalism school, Eleanor Reich would walk by protests calling for her country to be destroyed. When she would pass by […]

At this point, Gabi Hasin had grown used to fleeing his home ahead of missile fire from Lebanon. A resident of the northern border city of Kiryat Shemona, Hasin has spent the past year on the move, relocating seven times to keep himself and his family out of harm’s way. So when he packed his […]

JERUSALEM — The whoops and applause felt more suited to a rock concert than a prayer service. But this was a gathering of survivors from the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history, and Asaf Oren had just recited the blessing traditionally said after surviving a life-threatening event. Oren, whose arm was partially paralyzed by a […]