President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, attended and addressed the memorial ceremony at the site of the Nova music festival near Re’im, where hundreds of festival-goers were murdered and abducted during the Hamas-led October 7 massacre three years earlier. Before the ceremony, Herzog delivered a statement to the international media from the site, recalling the thousands of young people who had gathered there to celebrate before the attack. “Here at the Nova Musical Festival, thousands of young people came to sing and to dance, to celebrate life. People of 36 nationalities, from all over the world and from Israel. They were horrifically butchered, killed, tortured, raped, and abducted into Gaza,” he said.
Three years after the massacre, the president said, Israel remains determined to commemorate the victims while demonstrating its resilience and rebuilding the communities devastated in the attack. “We are here to tell their stories, and to remember, and reflect, and reminisce, and say to the world: we will dance again, we will live again,” he declared. “We are a nation in agony, but we are showing immense resilience. This whole region, which was attacked barbarically on October 7th, is now rebuilding.”
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