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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

Nova festival

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael, representing Israel with the song, 'New Day Will Rise,' walks on the turquoise carpet next to the Basel Town Hall, with protesters' Palestinian flags behind, during the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel on May 11, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
May 11, 2025, 11:48 pm
Israel’s Yuval Raphael and her team met by protests, threat as Eurovision week kicks off
Kan files police complaint after man makes throat-slitting gesture and spits at Israeli delegation; Palestinians flags fly as participants walk ‘turquoise carpet’ to open contest
By Amy Spiro, AFP and ToI Staff
Tal Kuperstein, left, and Ora Rubinstein, father and aunt of hostage Bar Kuperstein on April 29, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
May 6, 2025, 12:19 pm
Hostage’s father struggles to speak again in effort to bring his son home
Tal Kuperstein, recovering from a stroke that followed a serious car accident, is pushing himself to do everything he can to get his captive son Bar freed from Gaza
By Jessica Steinberg
Israel's 2025 Eurovision contestant Yuval Raphael (Shai Franco/Tedy Productions)
May 6, 2025, 1:48 am
After surviving Nova, Israel’s Eurovision hopeful is ready to ‘give my dreams a chance’
Yuval Raphael, who’ll represent Israel with ‘New Day Will Rise’ in Basel next week, adopts a carefully apolitical tone ahead of the highly charged contest: ‘I’m 100% focused on my song’
By Amy Spiro
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April 23, 2025, 10:49 am
Remembering Hanani Glazer and Bruna Valeanu at Masa’s Yom HaZikaron Event
On Israel’s remembrance day, Masa Israel Journey’s International Memorial Day Ceremony will honor the memory of two young Olim from Brazil who were taken from us at Nova.
Hostage Rom Braslavski speaks in a propaganda video published by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad on April 16, 2025. (Screenshot/Telegram)
April 16, 2025, 7:41 pm
‘Get me out of here’: Palestinian Islamic Jihad airs video of hostage Rom Braslavski
Mother says ‘he’s aged 10 years’; says they heard about video from media: PM’s son ‘is drinking margarita on Miami beach while my son is underground, and he doesn’t have time to update me?’
By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan
Shye Klein-Weinstein, a 28-year-old survivor of the October 7, 2023, massacre by Palestinian terrorists, poses for a picture at a memorial to the victims of the Nova Musical Festival in Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel on March 30, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
April 14, 2025, 6:28 pm
Nova survivors who took MDMA at festival are coping better with trauma, study finds
Researcher says revelers who were under influence of drug before Oct. 7 massacre still exhibit high levels of trauma, but feel more supported, sleep better than those who weren’t
By Ruth Eglash
From '#Nova,' the 52-minute documentary for Yes Studios about what took place at the Supernova desert rave on October 7, 2023, Nehorai Levi, left, Yarden Vaknin, center and Jonathan Cohen (Courtesy)
April 14, 2025, 4:47 pm
‘#Nova’ film, about Oct. 7 atrocities, arrives on Prime Video
The documentary chronicles the Hamas massacre at the desert rave, using footage taken by festival attendees and by the terrorists themselves
By Jessica Steinberg
The stories of those who hid in a dumpster and were ultimately murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel, on October 7, 2025, photographed on March 25, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
April 13, 2025, 12:18 pm
Telling victims’ stories, artist turns Nova’s killing fields into a healing memorial
Teaming up with victims’ families and KKL-JNF, Amir Chodorov is working around the clock to commemorate the lives of each of the hundreds of people slaughtered there on October 7
By Sue Surkes
Israeli soldiers drive by the Supernova rave party site, where almost 380 were killed, near Kibbutz Re'im, close to the Gaza Strip border fence, on October 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
April 11, 2025, 8:09 am
Friday Focus with Emanuel Fabian: IDF Oct. 7 probes reveal heroism amid terror
ToI’s military reporter goes deep into the investigations published recently into battles in Kibbutz Nirim, Sderot, Kibbutz Re’im, and the Nova music festival where 380 were killed
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
Shay Muzaffi (Courtesy)
April 10, 2025, 10:01 pm
Shay Muzaffi, 37: Electrician and dad of 2 loved extreme sports
Murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7
By ToI Staff
Idit Ohel, mother of hostage Alon Ohel, speaks during a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 9, 2025, 9:41 pm
What Matters Now to hostage mom Idit Ohel: Let our captives go!
Son Alon Ohel has shrapnel in his eye but endures with other fellow captives. Now, ahead of Passover, Idit says the entire Jewish nation must demand their freedom
By Jessica Steinberg
Sgt. Maj. Alon Barad (Courtesy)
April 8, 2025, 11:03 pm
Sgt. Maj. Alon Barad, 38: Police officer and family man who studied law
Killed on October 7 while battling the Hamas attack on the Supernova music festival
By ToI Staff
Ofek Atun (Courtesy)
April 8, 2025, 10:58 pm
Ofek Atun, 24: Hard worker dreamed of becoming a successful DJ
Killed on October 7 in Kibbutz Alumim after fleeing the Supernova music festival
By ToI Staff
Tal Katz (Courtesy)
April 6, 2025, 11:00 pm
Tal Katz, 37: Medical equipment technician moonlit as trance DJ
Killed in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 after fleeing there from the Supernova music festival
By ToI Staff
Ben Binyamin Cohen (Courtesy)
April 3, 2025, 8:19 pm
Ben Cohen, 27: Handyman, animal lover who ‘took life by storm’
Murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7
By ToI Staff
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