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Avi Benlolo: October 7 has strengthened the Jewish people's resolve

That horrific day has reawakened us

This week, Israel and Jewish communities around the world marked the third anniversary of the atrocities committed on Oct. 7, 2023. On that tragic day, thousands of Palestinian terrorists infiltrated Israel from Gaza, committing the most heinous and barbaric crimes against humanity.

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They not only murdered unarmed civilians in cold blood, they burned families alive, they killed children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children. They raped, humiliated and mutilated women in ways even hell could not imagine.

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My friend Remo El-Hozayel survived the massacre. He says even a horror movie could not come close to the carnage he witnessed with his own eyes at the Nova music festival. An Israeli Bedouin policeman, El-Hozayel saved nearly 200 young people at the festival, but the memory of a young woman shot in the back of the head as she ran toward him for safety haunts him to this day.

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