Hundreds of Israelis congregated in the early hours of Monday morning at the Nova Festival Victims Memorial site near Kibbutz Re’im, where Gazan terrorists stormed a peaceful music festival a little over two years ago, murdering 378 people.
The crowd was seen singing before sunrise, just hours before the redemption of the first seven of the twenty remaining living hostages in the Gaza Strip. The remaining 13 were returned to Israel later in the day.
After sunrise, thousands arrived at the site.
Thousands also arrived at the Western Wall in Jerusalem ahead of Hoshanah Rabba, the seventh day of the Sukkot holiday, which fell on Monday.
Worshippers also gathered in a sukkah at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, singing “and your children shall come back to their own country,” from the Book of