Nova music festival

Serbia’s FM Djuric to ‘Post’: Strategic partnership with Israel ‘historic step forward’ - interview

Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Djuric is cousins with Nova survivor and former Hamas hostage Alon Ohel. The FM said he "never believed" he would be able to walk through Tel Aviv with him.

Serbia's Foreign Minister Marko Djuric meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office as part of his official visit to Israel, April 30, 2026.
A man walks through the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California, US, August 11, 2025.

UCLA, student president distance themselves from student gov't that condemned former Gaza hostage

Ribbon of Return

How Could We Not Dance?

Before she became one of the names carried into national memory, Yulia was something more irreplaceable: the center of her family’s life.

In her final moments, she chose to stay


'Rest now, my darling': Israel pays final respects to fallen hostage Guy Illouz

"My Guychuk, it’s hard to see and imagine the future without you. They took you from me – they murdered you – they took me and stole my identity, murdering my soul and heart."

Michel Illouz eulogizes his son, Guy, whose body was returned by Hamas on October 14, 2025.

Who was Uriel Baruch, the kindhearted family man killed at the Nova festival? - explainer

He was 35 at the time of his murder. Baruch is survived by his wife Racheli, his two children Shalev and Ofek, as well as his parents and siblings.

Uriel Baruch

Remains of hostage Guy Illouz, taken from Nova and murdered in Gaza, returned to Israel

Guy was recorded as telling his father, "Dad, I love you, I was shot," in their final conversation on the morning of the massacre.

 Guy Illouz

'It's pure anticipation': Friends of Evyatar David celebrate release after 737 days in captivity

David, 24, was abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, alongside his childhood best friend, Guy Gilboa-Dalal.

Released hostage Evyatar David arrives to Beilinson hospital, October 13, 2025.

'IDF is covering up the investigations,' IDF Brig.-Gen in charge of Nova probe accuses Halevi

Brig.-Gen. Oren Solomon called the IDF's investigation on October 7 a "national scandal," and an "attempt at a cover-up."

IDF Brig. Gen. (res.) Oren Solomon speaks to media at the Nova festival site. Solomon served as a combat operations officer in the Gaza Division and led the division’s October 7 debriefings. October 8, 2025.

‘We forgot we have a prime minister’: Mother of hostage thanks Netanyahu

“We got a little confused; we forgot that we have a prime minister,” Ruchama Bohbot said on Sunday.

Ruchama Bohbot, mother of Elkana, an Israeli hostage expected to be released on Monday

Paramedic, breadwinner and hero of Nova: Who is hostage Bar Kupershtein? - explainer

Bar Kupershtein, a paramedic living in Holon, returned to the Nova Music Festival multiple times to evacuate and treat Hamas's victims when he was abducted.

Bar Kupershtein

Nova Festival survivor Roei Shalev takes own life two years after massacre

The 28-year-old survivor lost his partner and mother after the October 7 massacre — his death highlights the enduring trauma faced by many Nova survivors.

Roei Shalev and Mapal Adam

On Paramount+, Apple TV, HBO and more, Oct. 7 emerges as cinematic subgenre

As the shockwaves of Oct. 7 spread around the world, another crop of films has examined how the attacks reverberated across the Jewish Diaspora and within movements for and against Israel’s war.

The We Will Dance Again documentary, available for streaming on Paramount+

From surviving the Nova festival to battling cancer: Raz Peri's fight to inspire - interview

Post-Oct. 7, Raz Peri now takes on cancer for the second time. He tells the ‘Magazine’ how he is striving to turn pain into light.

Raz Peri