There are households sporting T-shirts picturing their family members and pals holding plant pots and flowers.
There may be music however it’s a muted tone, the place reminiscences are being shared by households of those that had been killed within the October 7 bloodbath.
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I discover Michal Bitton standing by two images of Maya Bitton and Eliran Mizrahi.
She desires to inform me the love story between her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend.
Michal recollects Eliran sat her and her husband all the way down to say: “I want to marry your daughter and I want your permission.”
Maya referred to as her mum on the morning of October 7 from the Nova music pageant to inform her “many terrorists” had been round. Eliran texted Michal, saying: “Don’t worry, we will be strong.”
Each of them had been later discovered wrapped in one another’s arms.
Michal informed me: “Instead of getting married, they got buried together.”
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Silence at Nova music pageant website
Later, an aged father slowly walks as much as me. His son, Sergeant Main Alon Barad, was additionally killed on obligation as a police officer. He confirmed me movies of his son in motion on that morning.
Alon was ending an evening shift on the Nova music pageant when he realised the severity of the scenario.
Together with different law enforcement officials, they closed off an entrance to the location to make sure festivalgoers might escape safely.
Alon and 7 different law enforcement officials efficiently evacuated greater than 1,500 folks.
