Shalev Madmoni and Guy Levi, 24: Couple slated to move in together

Shalev Madmoni, 24, of Rosh Ha’ayin, and her boyfriend Guy Levi, 24, of Neve Yamin, were murdered by Hamas terrorists while trying to flee the Supernova music festival on October 7.

The couple left the site of the festival when the rocket fire began, and decided to head toward friends who lived nearby to let things calm down before driving home. Their families believe they were slain along the road as they tried to flee.

Guy’s body was discovered after about a week, while Shalev’s body took close to 10 days to recover and identify.

Guy was buried on October 15 in Neve Yamin. He is survived by his parents, Orit and Nitzan, his siblings Mor and Shira, and his grandparents.

Shalev was buried on October 17 in Rosh Ha’ayin. She is survived by her parents, Ilanit and Peretz, her siblings Osher, Shaked and Shai, and her grandparents.

The couple were slated to move in together just days after the festival, their families said, and they had already set up and furnished an apartment and were just putting in the finishing touches before settling in.

They both loved the game footvolley, and their loved ones held a local tournament in December in their memory, and even sold volleyballs engraved with their faces and signatures to memorialize them.

“Shalev was a peaceful girl, like her name,” her aunt, Ayala, told a local news outlet. “She had the wisdom and knowledge to reach the destinations she wanted and the goals she set for herself in her own quiet way without a lot of talk.”

Ayala said that Shalev “always respected her parents, and had an endless love for Guy, her boyfriend. They were supposed to move in together and had already set up an apartment. We even ordered some appliances for them. It wasn’t meant to end this way, it’s a huge loss.”

Shalev’s mother, Ilanit, wrote on Facebook several months after she was killed: “Our Shalevi, a girl with a huge soul, loved and loving, peaceful and pleasant, always surrounded by friends.”

Shalev, she wrote, “loved to go out, parties, trips, didn’t pass up her ‘big trip’ in South America where she collected dozens more friends who enjoyed her presence. She was always helping, listening and accepting, she hated fights and gossip.”

She was “the kind of daughter who wouldn’t leave without checking on mom and dad, helping mom finish all the chores so it wouldn’t be too hard for her. A helping sister, attentive and beloved… you ended your life with your boyfriend who was the love of your life, you were a heavenly couple — a once in a lifetime love.”

Guy’s sister, Shira, wrote on Instagram that since his death, “there will always be a huge, enormous hole in my heart, because some terrorist decided to take my brother, Guy, and Shalev, his girlfriend who to me was like the sister I never had.”

“You don’t even know what kind of figure of pride you were to me and always will be,” she continued. “How every song you played in the car, I would do ‘Shazam’ without you knowing to play it later for my friends. How about everything, I would say what Guy would have done.”

Her brother, lived life, she said, “so strongly, as if he knew that he had only 24.5 years on earth.”

Shira wrote that her dream “was to find a love like you and Shalev had, five years of endless love, mutual and perfect love. The one thing that comforts me is that you’re together now, continuing to love.”

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