Dvir Rahamim, 23: Turned back to help others at Supernova festival
Murdered at the Supernova music festival, October 7
Dvir Rahamim, 23, from Ashdod, was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7 at the Supernova music festival.
When Hamas attacked the rave, Rahamim succeeded in fleeing, but he decided to turn back and try to help others and was ultimately slain.
His mother, Hagit, told Ynet that Dvir called her around 6:30 and told her he was heading home. Around 30 minutes later, he called her again and said, “‘Mom, there is a lot of gunfire, rockets sirens, we evacuated two really wounded people, I made a tourniquet,’ and he hung up. As I know my son, who finished his combat service two years ago, it was clear to me that he wouldn’t leave there if there was someone who needed his help.”
His close friend, Sahar Amsalem, told Ynet that he ran into Dvir at the party, and hid for two hours when the attack began. As he later ran for his car, “I saw Dvir in the area of the party running with a stretcher evacuating a friend of his.” Sahar tried to convince him to get in his car, and he replied “I can’t, I have another friend in there.”
At 8:42 a.m., he wrote his final text message in the family WhatsApp group: “If I don’t make it out of this alive, know that I love you to no end. You are my heart.”
Four days later, his body was found.
He was buried on October 11 in Ashdod. He is survived by his parents, Hagit and David, and two brothers, Noam and Eviatar.
His family said he was planning to study psychology and had worked for the past couple of years in deliveries to save money for his degree.
“He worked night and day, he didn’t want to ask for money from his parents and he saved up to fund his studies himself,” his aunt, Alice, told the Makor Rishon newspaper.
Alice said that he was “an incredible kid, incredible, with the smile of an angel and a big heart. He always loved to help. He spread love and accepted everything with joy and goodheartedness.”
His mother Hagit told Ynet that her son wanted to study psychology “so he could help others. ‘Be the light you want to see in others,’ was the sentence that accompanied him,” she said. “He said it to us, to his friends, to his little brothers. His hugs were the strongest and warmest in the world. He always showered others with love. Every time he entered a room, he created light around him.”
Hagit said Dvir “was not only my oldest son, but my closest friend. We told each other everything… We used to do everything together as a family. Since that day we feel like one huge rift. I feel like my heart has been uprooted. They took the most precious thing in the world to me. A child who went to dance, to be happy, to enjoy — and never came back.”
