Libby Cohen Meguri, 22: 'God sprinkled her with charisma powder'

Libby Cohen Meguri, 22, from Tel Aviv, was murdered by Hamas terrorists while trying to flee the Supernova music festival on October 7.

Libby went to the party with her close friend, Adi Rivka Maizel. When the rocket fire began, the pair tried to flee the site of the rave in their car and were shot dead by terrorists lying in wait on the side of the road.

Libby was able to call her family after she had already been mortally wounded and explained to them the situation. After she told them that she loved them, she was murdered in a volley of shots that the family heard in the call.

She is survived by her mother, twin brother, and younger sister.

Her mother Shelly Meshel-Yogev described Libby to Channel 12 as “the happiest person this world has ever known. She was a chunk of energy, happy, light, and laughing, from the moment she woke in the morning until the moment she went to sleep.”

Shelly’s husband Yariv Yogev told the Kan public broadcaster that “God sprinkled Libby with charisma powder.”

“She could never be passive about any suffering, or any weakness in society,” Yogev said. “To anyone who needed help.”

Yogev heads the Lis Maternity Hospital, part of the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv. Following Libby’s murder, staff suggested that a clinic providing services for women who have gone through trauma be dedicated to her memory.

“The clinic exactly embodies what Libby had,” Yogev said. “Her ability to give to be very, very sensitive to the needs of other people.”

After completing her army service as an officer in an infantry unit, Libby spent time abroad, as is common for released soldiers, touring in South America for seven months.

She cut short the trip to attend the Supernova music party, surprising her family by coming home early one morning. The moment when Libby and her mother embraced amid tears of joy was caught on video and has been posted to Libby’s Instagram account.

Libby was active on social media and since her death Shelly has worked to keep her Instagram account active, posting letters that she writes to her daughter.

Shelly told Kan she embraced the idea because she wanted “that a little of her remain in the world.”

At the time of Libby’s death, the account had 1,200 followers. By the following July that had grown to 62,000.

The family has also produced rolls of stickers featuring Libby’s photo, the date she was murdered, and slogans they say depict her character.

The family posts the stickers wherever they go but many others have visited their home in Tel Aviv to take a roll with them on their own travels, including abroad, Kan reported. Images of the stickers photographed at locations around the world have been posted to social media.

Libby was buried in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in north Tel Aviv. Her gravestone reads “Our sun was extinguished.”