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Former hostage Eliya Cohen and October 7 survivor Ziv Aboud marry on August 19, 2026 (Screenshots/Hen Mazzig via X)
August 20, 2026, 4:59 pm
Former hostage Eliya Cohen and longtime girlfriend wed in ceremony full of symbolism
Cohen and Nova survivor Ziv Abud celebrate union, together with fellow October 7 survivors and bereaved; are wed underneath canopy decorated with prayer shawl of Abud’s slain nephew
By Jessica Steinberg
British musician Boy George performs with Senhit (not pictured) representing San Marino with the song ‘Superstar’ during the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, May 12, 2026. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
August 10, 2026, 9:18 am
Boy George defends AI use in pro-Israel song, threatens to fire reluctant bandmates
British pop star says human musicians would have ‘gotten in my way’ while producing Nova tribute; insists lyrics, melody are entirely his after track’s removal from music platform
By ToI Staff
Liron Barda (left) and Bar Bechor Asraf (Courtesy)
August 4, 2026, 5:49 am
‘Twin souls’: Man dies by suicide at grave of close friend murdered at Nova on Oct. 7
Bar Bechor Asraf, 30, was close childhood friends with Liron Barda, who was killed at music festival massacre where she had stayed to tend to the wounded
By ToI Staff
Boy George poses for photographers upon arrival at The Evening Standard Theatre Awards in London, November 19, 2023. (Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP)
August 1, 2026, 9:11 am
Boy George defends pro-Israel song, says critics ignore Israelis’ suffering
British pop star says his Nova festival tribute is ‘pro peace,’ rejects claims he lacks compassion for Palestinians, after stepping down from West End role amid backlash
By ToI Staff
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan visits the Nova Exhibition London, on July 9, 2026. (Nova Exhibition London)
July 9, 2026, 8:25 pm
London mayor Sadiq Khan visits Nova festival exhibit, meets with survivors of Hamas massacre
Khan, whose visit comes after exhibit organizers criticized his absence, says public should stop by, as it transcends religion, highlights ‘horrors of that awful day’
By ToI Staff
Protesters demonstrate outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, during events marking the 1,000th day since the October 7 massacre, July 2, 2026 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 2, 2026, 6:29 pm
Survivors rail at government on 1,000th day since Oct. 7: ‘They’ve never taken responsibility’
Families and former hostages denounce government for ducking responsibility for massacre, demand state commission of inquiry, pan Netanyahu, Smotrich, for out of touch comments
By Sam Sokol, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir holds a strategic assessment, June 29, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 29, 2026, 6:54 pm
IDF chief marks 1,000 days since Oct. 7 attack ‘on very existence of Jewish people’
Zamir tells senior officers we’re ‘at a significant and strategic crossroads’; multiple unofficial memorial events and protest rallies planned for Thursday milestone
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Nova survivor Rita Yedid, thanking soldiers for their service after October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
June 5, 2026, 10:23 am
‘We were so broken’: Nova survivor Rita Yedid brings story of resilience to the screen
In documentary ‘Rita,’ which premiered May 27, the mother of two recounts hiding in the rave’s ticket booth as her husband shielded her from Hamas gunfire, and the painful aftermath
By Jessica Steinberg
Patrick Seamus McGhee visits the Nova Exhibition in London, May 20, 2026. (Lianne Kolirin)
May 21, 2026, 9:56 am
Down an alley past police barricades, visitors throng to London’s unsettling Nova exhibition
At Wednesday’s opening of Oct. 7 memorial display, locals come to bear witness despite — and because of — security fears and a hostile climate for UK Jews
By Lianne Kolirin
The camping area from the Supernova desert rave, recreated for the 'Nova 6.29' exhibit, remembering the 360 people who were gunned down by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy Tribe of Nova)
May 18, 2026, 12:13 pm
Nova exhibit banner in London taken down over police’s fear of attacks
London police request organizers of event memorializing massacre put banner up only when it opens on Wednesday to avoid giving away location to potential protesters, attackers
By ToI Staff
A 2015 image of Rachel Goldberg-Polin and her son, Hersh. (Courtesy)
April 21, 2026, 12:12 pm
Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s new memoir piercingly articulates the ordeal of losing a son
‘When We See You Again’ is a dive into ‘The Before’ and ‘The After’ of life as mother to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the 23-year-old taken hostage by Hamas terrorists and murdered in captivity
By Jessica Steinberg
At an event for the Youth Creating Memory project, in which musicians work with bereaved families to create songs for those lost since October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
April 20, 2026, 8:01 pm
In Jerusalem, young composers partner with bereaved families to create musical memories
The Tarbut Movement pairs families who lost loved ones on or after Oct. 7, 2023, with local school musical programs to create and record songs commemorating them in the styles they loved
By Jessica Steinberg
Rom Braslavski on his way back to Israel after two years in captivity in Gaza, October 13, 2025. (Government Press Office)
January 18, 2026, 1:14 pm
Ex-hostage Rom Braslavski allegedly assaulted outside Tel Aviv club
Boyfriend of singer Nasrin Qadri to be questioned by cops over incident; ex-captive’s mother warns that former hostages may seem okay, but are in ‘difficult post-traumatic state’
By ToI Staff
Burnt cars are left behind at the site of the massacre three days earlier by Palestinian terrorists on the Nova desert music festival near Kibbutz Re'im in the Negev desert in southern Israel, on October 10, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 12, 2026, 3:34 pm
Three sentenced for Oct. 8 looting of belongings of Nova festival victims
Beersheba residents entered site day after massacre under false pretenses, broke into abandoned vehicles and stole a laptop, credit cards and ID cards
By ToI Staff
Freed hostage Elkana Bohbot arrives at his home near Jerusalem on October 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 29, 2025, 10:38 am
Freed hostage Elkana Bohbot: Hamas made me film mock suicide video
In a harrowing interview, Bohbot also reveals details of early attempt to escape his Hamas captors and describes surviving terrorist ‘hunting trip’ at Nova festival massacre
By ToI Staff
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