Moshe Saadyan, 26: Entrepreneur envisioned life of ‘unconditional love’
Murdered by Hamas terrorists while trying to flee the Supernova music festival on October 7
Moshe “Moshiko” Saadyan, 26, from Yavne, was murdered by Hamas terrorists while trying to flee the Supernova music festival on October 7.
He attended the rave with a group of four friends – two of whom were also slain that day: Guy Azar and Ben Hasid.
The two surviving friends, Raz Mordechai and Or Moshe, told the Daily Mail that they initially got in their car to leave before encountering a police roadblock, and just ahead of it, a pickup truck of Hamas terrorists who opened fire.
“Terrified that we would be caught in the crossfire – we scrambled out of the car before running away across the nearby scrubland,” the two survivors said. “The two of us managed to stay together but – before we knew it – Guy, Moshe and Ben were nowhere to be seen.”
At 8:30 a.m., Moshe told his girlfriend Ma’ayan that he was tying a tourniquet on somebody who was wounded. That was the last anybody heard from him.
After a week of searching, his family was informed that his body had been identified.
He was buried in Yavne on October 14. He is survived by his parents, Motti and Vered, and his younger siblings Tehilla, Yair, Hadas, Agam, Tohar and Yahel.
Born and raised in Yavne, Moshe was the oldest in the family, ahead of his younger sister and his five half-siblings. He attended local schools, and after graduating he enlisted in the IDF and served in the Givati Brigade.
He was an entrepreneur who was always dreaming up his next business venture, his family said, working most recently in car sales.
A year before he was killed, Moshe and his sister took part in a weeklong personal development workshop in Turkey, during which he wrote his vision for the future – dated October 14, 2022, exactly one year before his funeral was held.
“With the strength and determination that I possess in quiet and inner peace, I build a world founded on the values of abundance, prosperity, unconditional love and freedom,” he wrote at the time. “I provide a personal example and inspiration to all those children who dream that everything is possible and if they want it – it’s not a fairy tale… I am a success story, I am proud of myself and the path I took despite everything.”
“Moshiko was my firstborn, all of our eyes were on him, we adored him,” his mother, Vered, told Ynet. “He always brought with him a sense of joy, he lit up every place he entered. He was characterized by endless generosity and a captivating smile.”
Vered said Moshe “was always there for others, helped anyone who needed. He brought a sense of security everywhere he went, made sure to always convey to those around him that there are good people doing good things. He loved to travel and to laugh… he was something special.”
She said he went through difficulties in life, including his parents’ divorce and financial troubles: “Moshiko went through many upheavals in life, in different areas. He always worked on himself, tried to improve, to be better, to find strength in crises. He had a girlfriend, he was planning to move up north this year and I planned to move with him. I felt like recently he had found his place.”
His sister, Tehilla, told the Mako news site, “He wasn’t just a brother, he was my best friend, my conversationalist. If I were annoyed he knew how to reach me. I was fire and he was water, and he, who knew only how to judge people positively, always looked at the good side of people.”
Tehilla said her older brother “was really a beautiful kid – inside and out. A leader at home and with his friends. Everyone loved him, everyone gathered around him. He was the psychologist for everyone.”
