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Nova Tribe gives grants to bereaved families of Oct.7 rave
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter
The Nova Tribe Community Association starts distributing more than NIS 1.2 million ($325,000) to 412 families who lost loved ones in the Hamas terror attack on the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023.
The one-time memorial grants of NIS 3,000 ($790) per family are conditional on family registration. They are to help families with memorial activities of their choosing and to express the community’s commitment to preserving their memory.
The Nova Tribe Community Association was established by the producers of the Nova festival to support the rehabilitation of survivors and the bereaved families, to commemorate the murdered, and to tell the world their story.
Thousands of Hamas terrorists crossed the Gaza border into Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering some 1,200 mainly civilians and abducting 251.
Discovering the Nova party by apparent mistake, gunmen showered revelers with bullets as missiles rained down on them from the Hamas-controlled strip.
They murdered 364 revelers at the main party site and abducted 40 more to the Palestinian enclave.
The additional 48 dead were at two related raves also close to Kibbutz Re’im, or were gunned down on the main road out of the Nova, trying to escape. They also include Shirel Golan, a survivor who took her own life in late 2024.
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