The Sharabi brothers had hoped to tell British Jews about their new non-profit for helping other October 7 survivors with therapy, and supporting them in traveling to share their own stories.
The officers allegedly said that they had to detain and interrogate the survivors for two hours because "they had to make sure that you are not going to do what you are doing in Gaza over there."
Following October 7, after a period when people took time to digest what had occurred, trance events started up again, but in a somewhat different mode.
"The leaders of this country are not thinking straight because they are still speaking from a place of continual, unending, throbbing, sharp, ongoing guilt-ridden trauma," said Goldberg-Polin.
"Survivors from the Nova Festival and from the settlements on the Gaza border, and displaced persons now living in hotels, sought advice. They did not know who to turn to.”
In the wake of the war, it is our obligation to listen to sounds of mourning and hope, and through this, bear witness to past and future.
Countless solidarity and educational trips have already visited the October 7 areas to bear witness.
As Israel faced a rocky path to the 2024 Eurovision in Sweden, facing issues in song approval, Israeli public broadcast Kan 11 revealed the video for Eden Golan's "Hurricane."
Maccabi World Union assists communities affected by the war, survivors of the Supernova festival, and shell-shocked soldiers.
The distinctive vulnerability of women and girls during armed attacks was exposed on October 7, but so too was the strength of the women of Israel.
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