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PHOTO ESSAY: No words, just tears

First anniversary of the October 7 Hamas massacre at the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re'im where 401 revelers were killed and 44 taken hostages to Gaza.
In total in the October 7 attack 1165 people were killed.

Photo:Ariel Jerozolimski

A mother mourns at the site of the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re'im to mark the first anniversary since the Hamas massacre attack on October 7,2023 410 revelers were murdered and 44 taken hostages to Gaza. In the October 7 attack almost 1200 people were killed. Photo:Ariel Jerozolimski

There’s a before and after October 7th.

As a nation, and with much more pain for the families that their loved ones where murdered in cold blood in the worst massacre of the Jewish People since the Holocaust.

Today at the first anniversary I attended the modest ceremony at the site of the Nova Music festival near Kibbutz Re’im.

I couldn’t hold my tears when while photographing a woman I asked her if the boy in the picture was his son, and her answer was “my only one son”.

About the Author

Born in Uruguay in 1965 and lives in Israel since 1984. Since 1990 he worked as a freelance photographer for Israeli and international media including AFP, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, Stern Magazine, El Pais, and Xinhua. In 1999 Jerozolimski joined the leading Israeli business daily, Globes,as a staff photographer till 2009. He was the chief photographer for The Jerusalem Post between 1999 and 2010. His work has been exhibited at the Berlin Museum, "Israel Under Attack" about the First Gulf War. He's also participated in a number of group exhibitions. His photos have also been featured in such books as A Day in the Life of the IDF, 24 Hours at Prison, and Photographers in the Street. In addition to his photographic work, he is a licensed tour guide in Hebrew, English, Spanish and Portuguese and organizes photographic tours.