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‘We will dance again’: Survivor of Israeli music festival targeted by Hamas tells her story


Noa Beer, a DJ booking agent who survived the attack on the Nova Music Festival in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. John L. Micek/MassLive

Noa Beer remembers the person she was at 6:28 a.m. on Oct. 7, 2023, and the person she was one life-changing minute later.

At 6:28 a.m., Beer was a booking agent escorting a Hungarian DJ around the Nova Music Festival in Re’im, Israel. Earlier, she’d bought a beer at the bar, clinked glasses, and toasted their good fortune and the music that had brought so much joy to so many.

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John L. Micek

John Micek is MassLive’s politics editor.

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