Noa Argamani in London |
Close to a thousand people packed London’s St John’s Wood Synagogue this week to hear Noa Argamani speak.
On October 7th 2023, Noa and her boyfriend Avinatan Or were at the Nova music festival in Israel’s western Negev when Hamas terrorists attacked. They both fled the scene and hid for hours, having witnessed countless murders by the terrorists, before they were discovered by the attackers. Such was the evil of Hamas that they videoed and live streamed the discovery and of the couple being brutally separated and taken hostage into Gaza. The clip of the terrified Noa, held captive on a motorbike and screaming “Don’t kill me!” was broadcast around the world, becoming one of the defining icons of the horrors of October 7th. Noa was held as a hostage in Gaza for eight months until she was rescued by IDF Special Forces on June 8th 2024.
Shortly after being rescued, Noa devoted herself to campaigning globally for the release of the remaining hostages and the repatriation of the remains of those hostages who had died in captivity. All have now been returned to Israel including Avinatan who was forced to endure two brutal years being held by Hamas before they released him. He and Noa are now reunited. Noa was, and has returned to being, an undergraduate student at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)........