Rita Yedid survived the massacre at the Nova desert rave during the bloody October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught by hiding in the ticket office as her husband shielded her with his body. He took three bullets as terrorists shot through the doors and windows.

Yedid, now 35, is a mother of two, including a six-month-old son. She’s the subject of a new documentary, “Rita,” which premiered May 27 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.

The 55-minute documentary takes viewers through the fight for survival in which Yedid, her husband Guy, and her sister Eden hid with other partygoers in the ticket booth at the rave.

Guy was shot three times in his lower stomach as he lay on top of Rita before they were rescued by IDF troops around 2:30 p.m., eight hours after the attack began.

The couple’s personal troubles began in the wake of the attack, as Guy recovered from the gunshot wounds and the pair took stock of what happened to them and others that day.

“The movie is about surviving and how to keep on living,” said Yedid. “How is it to live knowing that you have so much to deal with.”

Yedid and her husband have long attended nature raves, including while Rita lived for a decade in the United States. During that time, she became known around the party scene as Wonder Rita.

“I’m the kind of person who knows how to do everything. I can put a nail in the wall, and see what people need, I’m always one step ahead,” said Yedid, who created her own logo, a riff on actress Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman........

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