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Nissim and Ricarda Louk at their daughter Shani Louk's funeral in Srigim, west of Jerusalem, on May 19, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
‘No Arab should remain in Gaza,’ Shani Louk’s father declares
"Blotting out the memory of Amalek is our job," said bereaved father Nissim Louk.
Akiva Van Koningsveld
March 7, 2025
Traffic on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, Jan. 23, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
A tale of two traffic jams
While many Israelis willingly got held up in traffic for Shani Louk, few take kindly to bumper-to-bumper diktats imposed by Shikma Bressler.
Ruthie Blum
May 19, 2024
A poster of Shani Louk, 22, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7, at a campus rally against an award presented by the University of Missouri for a photo of her body, April 5, 2024. Photo by Daniel Swindell.
Campus rally challenges Missouri award for photo of Shani Louk’s body
“Hamas terrorists wanted to show Shani Louk’s dead body as a prize, and the University of Missouri gave them a prize,” said organizer Daniel Swindell.
David Swindle
April 10, 2024
Missouri School of Journalism archway, on the Columbia, Mo. campus of the University of Missouri, with two Chinese stone sculptures and the inscription "Wise shall be the bearers of light." Credit: APN Photography/Shutterstock.
‘Disgusting,’ House whip says of University of Missouri award for photo of Hamas brutality
"This photo captures Hamas terrorists desecrating the body of Shani Louk, may her soul rest in peace," wrote Knesset member Danny Danon. "Yet the AP news agency proudly received an award for it."
April 1, 2024
Shani Louk, an Israeli-German citizen murdered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Nissim Louk.
Photographers who joined the Oct. 7 pogrom deserve censure, not awards
The prestigious honor given to the photo of Hamas terrorists showing off the half-naked body of their young Jewish victim is evidence of the corruption of contemporary journalism.
Jonathan S. Tobin
April 1, 2024
Shani Louk. Source: X.
‘AP’ photographer accused of working with Hamas wins prestigious award
The Pictures of the Year award honored photographer Ali Mahmud for a photo showing the half-naked body of Shani Louk being abducted to Gaza.
April 1, 2024
Shani Louk. Photo by Uri Lidor/Courtesy of the Louk family.
‘She left something for the world’: Exhibition of Shani Louk drawings
Footage of the young woman being paraded in the back of a truck around Gaza was one of the first to emerge on Oct. 7. Shani's mother, Rikki, talks about the exhibition, launched on would have been her 23rd birthday.
Maya Cohen
Feb. 16, 2024
Shani Louk, an Israeli-German citizen murdered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Nissim Louk.
‘We wanted to keep Shani’s memory alive’
Tel Aviv's Nahum Gutman Museum of Art marked Shani Louk's 23rd birthday with an exhibition of her art. Louk was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7.
Amelie Botbol
Feb. 7, 2024
Shani Louk. Source: X.
‘I have nothing left to lose; I’ve already lost what was most precious’
Ricarda Louk's daughter Shani was brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Now she's taking the fight back to Hamas.
Merav Sever
Jan. 22, 2024