The parents of Ben Mizrahi, who was killed by Hamas at the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, have returned to live in Israel, Kan News reported on Monday.
Mizrahi, 22, immigrated to Israel from Vancouver after graduating high school and served as a combat medic in the Israel Defense Forces’ 101st Paratroopers Battalion. He had recently completed his military service when he and his friends came under terrorist gunfire at the event.
Mizrahi tried to escape the site by car but, upon seeing several wounded individuals, stopped his vehicle and began evacuating and treating victims at a tent he set up—all while under constant fire.
He managed to send a message to a friend from his hometown of Kibbutz Yavne before he was fatally shot by the terrorists.
“We arrived at the airport after several days without any sleep,” his mother, Dikla Mizrahi, told Kan News on Monday, recalling the aftermath of the attacks. “I remember saying: Just tell me already. Is he dead? Hostage? Wounded? What? What? What am I heading towards?”
Following Ben’s murder, Dikla and her husband, Itzik Mizrahi, decided to move to Kibbutz Yavne, where their son had been adopted by a local family during his service in the IDF as a lone soldier.
“It’s not always easy for me to walk the streets here. Everything reminds me of him, but I truly know that he had it good here,” Dikla told Kan News. “I don’t regret for a moment that he came here and did this.”
More than 350 innocent civilians, most of them young people, were killed at the Nova music festival—part of the 1,200 people murdered by Hamas-led terrorists during the Oct. 7 massacre.
