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The Dvori family home in Kibbutz Be'eri, southern Israel, January 13, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
January 15, 2026, 10:17 am
Kibbutz Be’eri chooses single burned-out house to bear testimony to October 7
Home on community’s periphery belongs to the Dvori family, who were overseas when Hamas went on killing spree; other wrecked structures scheduled for demolition
By Sue Surkes
'Daughters of Deborah' - a monument for fallen female soldiers in Petah Tikva, September 2025 (Tal Schneider/Times of Israel)
October 11, 2025, 7:59 am
October 7 spurs new memorials honoring Israel’s fallen female soldiers
From Nahal Oz to Petah Tikva’s ‘Daughters of Deborah,’ new monuments reflect Israel’s long-overdue recognition of women’s sacrifice in battle
By Tal Schneider
Yonatan Shamriz, brother of hostage Alon Shamriz, who was mistakenly killed by IDF troops in Gaza in December 2023, speaks at the national memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv founded by his organization, Kumu, marking two years since Hamas's October 7, 2023, onslaught, on October 7, 2025. (Oshrit Zinger/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
October 8, 2025, 2:35 am
‘We will rise’: Grief, defiance and hope as 30,000 gather in Tel Aviv two years after Oct. 7
At the nation’s largest memorial since Hamas’s attack, bereaved families and survivors honor those lost in the war and call for the release of the 48 hostages still held in Gaza
By Stav Levaton and Jessica Steinberg
A crowd gathers at the Nova Tribe Community Association’s memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv, commemorating two years since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre at the Nova music festival, October 5, 2025. (Eclipse Media)
October 6, 2025, 12:37 pm
Two years on, Nova festival survivors gather to honor the dead — and the living
At a Tel Aviv memorial, bereaved families and survivors of Hamas’s October 7 massacre vow to remember, rebuild, and bring home the hostages still in Gaza
By Stav Levaton
Israel supporters observe a moment of silence as they attend a vigil outside McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on October, 7, 2024, to commemorate the victims of the October 7 massacre by Hamas on Israel. (Graham Hughes / AFP)
October 3, 2025, 8:05 am
Events worldwide to focus on healing, unity as Jews gather to mark Oct. 7 attacks
On 2nd anniversary of devastating Hamas-led atrocities that sparked the ongoing Gaza war, Diaspora organizers say memorials will be safe spaces to mourn together, free of politics
By Zev Stub
Architect Zvika Pasternak with some of the metal bands on which the signatures of the 64 residents murdered at Kibbutz Kfar Aza by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, are inscribed. (Zvika Pasternak)
March 23, 2025, 8:21 am
Kfar Aza Oct. 7 memorial forms unforeseen stop on trail envisioned by murdered Ofir Libstein
The Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council head had opened the tourist route 10 days before he was killed by terrorists; station includes carved signatures of murdered residents
By Sue Surkes
Friends and family of the victims of the Nova music festival massacre gather at the site of the massacre in southern Israel one year after the attack, October 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 11:55 pm
Oct. 7 ceremonies across Israel see mix of searing grief, political tensions
One year after massacre, several major and countless smaller ceremonies take place, as the country grapples with grim anniversary at same time as ongoing war and internal division
By Deborah Danan
Photographs of the victims killed and held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since the October 7 massacre, at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv. September 29, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
October 6, 2024, 4:03 am
After 40,000 planned to attend, alternative Oct. 7 memorial limited to 2,000 people
Organizers say wartime cap on gatherings will limit crowd, invite public to watch in their own communities; Herzog says Israel can’t fully heal while hostages remain in Gaza
By ToI Staff and AFP
Israelis embrace next to photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas terrorists during their violent rampage through the Nova music festival in southern Israel, which are displayed at the site of the event, as Israeli DJs spun music, to commemorate the October 7, massacre, near Kibbutz Re'im, November 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
August 27, 2024, 11:47 am
Huge alternative Oct. 7 memorial ceremony to be held in Tel Aviv; state event in Ofakim
Tens of thousands expected at Yarkon Park gathering to be emceed by Hanoch Daum and Rotem Sela, include speeches by bereaved families, relatives of hostages, Gaza border residents
By ToI Staff
Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference discussing plans for the state ceremony commemorating the October 7 massacre, at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem, August 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 22, 2024, 6:22 pm
Regev dismisses families’ objections as ‘noise’ as she pushes ahead with Oct. 7 ceremony
She likens communities’ planned events to ‘alternative ceremonies, such as Israeli-Palestinian ceremony on Memorial Day’; is accused of ignoring pain of bereaved, hostages’ families
By ToI Staff
A community space and kitchen in the Zomi displaced people's camp in the Gaza Strip has been named for the Canadian-born Israeli peace campaigner Vivian Silver, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in her home in Kibbutz Be'eri, close to the Gaza border, on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 8, 2024, 2:10 pm
Israeli peace activist murdered by Hamas is memorialized in Gaza evacuee camp
Sign with Vivian Silver’s name and photo graces community facility in humanitarian zone in south Gaza
By Sue Surkes
Israelis stand for a minute of silence in Tel Aviv on November 7, 2023, to remember the victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre last month. (Photo by Albert Bannon, made available by the Brothers and Sisters in Arms protest group)
November 7, 2023, 2:58 pm
Israel observes national day of mourning, one month after October 7 massacre
A minute of silence is held and flags are lowered to half staff as memorial ceremonies get underway across country to remember 1,400 dead, advocate for 242 hostages
By ToI Staff
Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May addresses members of the United Synagogue at a memorial ceremony for Queen Elizabeth ll ,held at St. John's Wood Synagogue, northwest London, on September 15, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
September 15, 2022, 2:59 am
‘Always a spark about her’: Ex-PM May shares Queen stories at Jewish memorial event
May offers a series of warm insights, and then stresses, above all, that Elizabeth II ‘believed in the importance of faith, and recognized the value of other faiths’
By Sue Surkes
Written in Hebrew at the Anna Szenes House in Kibbutz Sdot Yam are the words of the young Senesh's poem, 'A voice called, and I went.' (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 21, 2021, 8:31 am
Discover a fallen poet and WWII heroine at the Hannah Senesh House near Caesarea
Recently opened to visitors, a newly renovated museum honors the Hungarian-born writer and paratrooper killed when she returned to Europe from the Holy Land to save her fellow Jews
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Photos of the Krieger family and a graphic t-shirt of the word 'orbisculate,' which Hilary and Jonathan Krieger are working to get into the dictionary in honor of their late father, Neil. (Courtesy)
March 18, 2021, 3:35 am
You can’t look it up… yet: Siblings seek to honor late dad with ‘orbisculate’
After losing their father Neil to COVID-19 last year, his children are on a mission to commemorate him by having a term he coined officially added to the English lexicon
By Cathryn J. Prince
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