Bereaved mother at Nova site: ‘I’m here to be with her, because this is the last time that she was alive’

Orit Baron, whose daughter Yuval was murdered with her fiance Moshe Shuva on October 7, 2023, visits the Nova festival site where the couple was murdered.

Baron says that it was a “black” date for her family.

“Now it’s two years. And I’m here to be with her, because this is the last time that she was alive,” the 57-year-old mother says at the site of the attack, adding she felt “that right now she’s with me here.”

Baron and Shuva were buried side by side, a few months before they were slated to wed on Valentine’s Day.

“Their relationship was simply beautiful, they each took small steps toward each other, they blossomed together,” Orit Baron told Mako last year. “It was incredible to see how opposite they were, she was crazy, loud, you couldn’t not see her and hear her in every place. He’s shy, introverted, gentle, you don’t hear or see him.”

The Nova music festival was held in the Re’im area near the Gaza border as part of the Sukkot holiday celebrations in 2023.

In the early morning hours of October 7, Hamas terrorists stormed the festival grounds during their surprise attack on southern Israel, murdering 378 people and kidnapping dozens more.