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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 Supernova 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
Shari Redstone, then-executive chairwoman, Paramount Global attends the Paramount's 'Yellowstone' Season 5 Part 2 Premiere at Museum of Modern Art in New York City, on November 7, 2024. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
December 4, 2025, 8:07 am
Media mogul Shari Redstone’s new venture seeks to tell authentic stories about Israel
Billionaire says work with documentary about Nova music festival massacre led her to see that Israeli production company is aligned with family foundation to combat antisemitism
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Released hostage Bar Kuperstein wears tefillin at a prayer event at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on October 31, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages Forum)
November 10, 2025, 6:53 pm
Freed hostage Bar Kuperstein says he prayed to God regularly in Hamas captivity
Released a month ago after two years of beatings and starvation in Gaza tunnels, Kuperstein says he and his fellow hostages would tell each other ‘we will not let them defeat us’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
L-R: Yoram Yehudai, whose son Ron was killed at the Nova festival, in a video statement released on November 5, 2025. (Screenshot/October Council); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the graduation of an IDF officers' course, October 30, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)
November 5, 2025, 2:19 pm
Bereaved father interrupts PM’s court hearing with demand for state Oct. 7 inquiry
Yoram Yehudai, whose son Ron was killed at the Nova festival, says Netanyahu has refused to meet him, but he will ‘pursue’ premier until an impartial panel is established
By ToI Staff
Ofir Tzarfati (Courtesy)
October 30, 2025, 5:19 pm
‘Saying goodbye for a 3rd time’: Ofir Tzarfati’s family buries remains returned by Hamas
Rachel Tzarfati, mother of slain hostage, says she takes comfort that her son’s body has returned to Holy Land; father, Hanan, asks for ‘forgiveness that I failed to protect you’
By Michael Horovitz
Former hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana speaks in an interview with Channel 12 broadcast on October 28, 2025 (Screncapture)
October 29, 2025, 5:28 pm
‘I need to learn to be free’: Ex-hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana adapting to life after captivity
Ohana, who spent two years held in Gaza, recounts in first interview the horrors of being the only survivor of a group shot at by Hamas and his struggles to stay alive in Gaza
By ToI Staff
Released hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana speaks in an interview aired October 28, 2025. (Channel 12 news)
October 27, 2025, 10:45 pm
In first interview, released hostage says he convinced Hamas captors not to kill him
Yosef-Haim Ohana recalls captor putting gun to his head, asking hostages to choose who among them would be killed or hurt; describes beatings in tunnels
By ToI Staff
Inbar Haiman (Courtesy)
October 21, 2025, 10:14 pm
Inbar Haiman, 27: Graffiti artist, design student was ‘sweet and funny’
Kidnapped and murdered while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7, her body taken to Gaza and returned in October 2025
By ToI Staff
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