The Nova festival
An open-air celebration of music that became the site of the largest massacre of that day.
A dawn that should not have ended this way
The Supernova electronic music festival was held under the open sky near Kibbutz Re'im. By the morning of October 7, about 3,500 people had gathered there — to dance and greet the sunrise.
While the music played, the grounds and escape routes were surrounded by fighters who had broken in from Gaza. People tried to flee across open fields along the border for tens of kilometers.
The festival in figures
A place where people come to remember
Today the parking lot near Re'im holds a memorial: photographs of the dead, flags, flowers, and personal belongings. Families and thousands of people from around the world come here.
They come to honor the memory of the young who came to dance and never returned home. The field where the music played has become a place of quiet grief and remembrance.
