35,000 attend Tel Aviv concert remembering Nova festival massacre

Tens of thousands of revelers attend the We Will Dance Again concert at Tel Aviv’s Park HaYarkon to remember the hundreds of people massacred at the Supernova music festival on October 7.

Channel 13 reports that 35,000 people are in attendance, and several stars are performing, including rock singer Berry Sakharof, hard rock band HaYehudim, Mosh Ben Ari, Marina Maximillian, Girafot, as well as several techno DJs.

Nimrod Arnoni, the founder of the Tribe of Nova which organized the festival, tells the audience that despite his pain, he was excited to be there.

“The Nova is a magical place where time stands still. At that Shabbat at the beginning of October, our light was tested. A test that we never imagined in our greatest nightmares we would need to pass. The ultimate darkness challenged the great light of the Tribe of Nova,” he says, vowing: “We will dance again.”

“They can hurt us, but they can never beat us. We were stronger than them, and it will remain so,” he says.

Iris Ben Lulu, whose son Orel Abuhatzira was murdered at the festival on October 7, tells the crowd: “Since October 7, everything burst out and I feel there are no limits, no barriers and everything is free, and I am allowed to express myself and the pain. It’s very exciting that they gave us the right and the platform. I’m sure out children are proud.”

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