Adi Margalit, 24: Architecture student who ‘danced until her final day’
Murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival, October 7
Adi “Didi” Margalit, 24, from Moshav Haniel in central Israel, was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7.
Her family said she was working at the festival and fled when the rockets began firing. Around 9:30 a.m. she told her family she was hiding in a bomb shelter next to Kibbutz Be’eri. That was the last they heard from her.
She was buried on October 12 in her hometown of Haniel. She was killed alongside her childhood friend, Roni Shitrit.
Adi is survived by her parents, Dorit and Zohar, sister Bar and twin brother Amit. Her family said she was studying architecture and interior design in Tel Aviv.
Her cousin, Ori Aviram, wrote on Instagram that “all of our childhood, from a young age to our late teens, we would spend every vacation sleeping together in the same bed and spending entire days together, and we would never get sick of being together.”
Aviram said they were supposed to meet up the week of her funeral, “and you told me that I was so busy recently that it was almost impossible to make plans with me. I will regret it for the rest of my life that I didn’t free up every minute I had to meet with you and be with you… My Adi, my family, my cousin, my friend, watch over us from above, with your captivating smile, your contagious laughter and your pure heart. I love you.”
Her boyfriend, Tom Hamides, wrote on social media that Adi was “our jewel, with kind eyes and a wild smile. A pure ray of sunshine, which will never shine again. And now all of us must get used to darkness.”
Hamides said Margalit “entered into the hearts of a thousand people, and now that you’re gone, all of us are carrying with us a little bit of Adi… Every smile that I smile, every tear that I shed, and every love I experience will have a little bit of Adi in it.”
In a statement to a local news outlet, her family wrote that “our Adi danced until her final day. She took life by storm with her endless energy — the energy of action, creativity and generosity. Everywhere she went she spread joy and laughter… when we think about Adi we are comforted by the fact that her short life was a full one.”
“Despite the difficulty and the sadness that hits us repeatedly throughout the day, our family has decided to choose life. We have no doubt that that’s what Adi would want us to do — to celebrate and rejoice like there is no tomorrow.”
