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.

|ByALEX WINSTON
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

USAC had argued that the Nazarian Center's sponsorship of the April 14 event reflected a disregard for Palestinian life and made the university complicit in amplifying one sided narratives.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Ribbon of Return

How Could We Not Dance?

"It’s about reclaiming our right to exist in the world despite everything that they tried to take from us. Dancing becomes an act of defiance, a way of refusing to let the darkness win."

|ByCHEN SCHIMMEL, JACOB SCHIMMEL, IN COLLABORATION WITH CHEN SCHIMMEL
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

An immigrant from Ukraine who became a police officer, Yulia Waxer Daunov was, above all, a mother whose final actions on Oct. 7 saved lives. Her story will be told at the Masa Yom Hazikaron ceremony

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IN COLLABORATION WITH MASA ISRAEL JOURNEY

President Herzog hosts screening of 'We Will Dance Again' documentary

President Isaac Herzog on Tuesday hosted a screening attended almost entirely by people connected to or involved in the concept and evolution of the documentary.

AUGUST 13, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Keshet Casarotti-Kalfa was killed at the Nova Music Festival, and his story is one of those told in the documentary, We Will Dance Again

'Tell us how he died': Liverpool's Mohamed Salah criticizes UEFA tribute to 'Palestinian Pele'

Pro-Israel activists denounced Salah's comments, asking why he did not make similar comments for murdered Israeli footballer Lior Asulin, killed by Hamas at Nova music festival on Oct. 7.

AUGUST 10, 2025ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Mohamed Salah embraces the Premier League trophy, Liverpool, UK, May 26, 2025; illustrative.

Nova survivor to Gaza border storyteller: Israeli tour guide's journey of healing and history

A gifted and well-researched storyteller recounts the historical conflict of the region, along with an honest reckoning of his ordeal since Oct. 7.

AUGUST 8, 2025ByLIANE GRUNBERG WAKABAYASHI
AMIT MUSAEI, tour guide at Sderot’s lookout. Here, one can have the sense of the proximity of the border with Gaza, and the panoramic view of Gaza’s northern areas (Jabalya, Beit Hanoun, and Gaza City).

Grapevine, August 8, 2025: Time to heal

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 8, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
HAIFA MAYOR Yona Yahav and Indian Ambassador J.P. Singh are surrounded by Indian dancers.

From survival to simcha: Rebuilding after destruction - opinion

Beyond the Headlines: A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news

AUGUST 5, 2025BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR
Nachman and Daniella Dahan under the chuppah.

Israel Antiquities Authority unveils harrowing October 7 exhibition: 'Rising from the Ashes'

The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the opening of its new exhibit detailing the October 7 massacre from the perspective of archeologists who assisted in bringing closure after the attack.

JULY 30, 2025ByJOANIE MARGULIES
Rising from the Ashes

Let’s Do Something: Healing lives with David’s Circle in memory of fallen heroes - opinion

To date, David’s Circle has supported over 600 Israelis, mostly between 21-25 years of age; reserve soldiers, Nova survivors, and those most deeply impacted by October 7 and the war that followed.

JULY 29, 2025ByBARUCH APISDORF
David's Circle in Thailand has helped over 600 Israelis.

Finally seeing the site of the October 7 massacre with my own eyes - opinion

In the early months after October 7, 2023, the idea of going felt almost ghoulish – voyeuristic even. Who was I to tread on such sacred ground, soil soaked with blood and tears?

JULY 19, 2025ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN
VISITORS TO the site of the Nova massacre use music to memorialize those murdered. ‘I walked through the fields and tried to imagine the music, the laughter, the dancing feet, but all I could hear in my mind were the gunshots,’ says the writer.

Gal Gadot visits sites of the October 7 massacre to honor the victims

JULY 13, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
Gal Gadot receives the International Leadership award from ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt at ADL Never Is Now at Javits Center on March 04, 2025 in New York City.

IDF soldier takes his own life after struggling with mental health from Oct 7, Gaza war

"He told me he saw horrors and said, 'Mom, I can’t stop smelling the bodies, and I see the bodies all the time,'" Daniel's mother, Sigal Edri, recalled.

JULY 7, 2025ByELI ASHKENAZI
Daneil Edri, an IDF soldier.