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KKL-JNF Asks Police to Bar Simchat Torah Festivities at Nova Massacre Site

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The October 7 Remembrance Day

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  5. Herzog Salutes Police Officers for October 7 Bravery and Daily Service
  6. State Department Postpones October 7 Memorial (Updated)
  7. KKL-JNF Asks Police to Bar Simchat Torah Festivities at Nova Massacre Site
  8. Ofakim Announces October 4-5 Community Memorial Program
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KKL-JNF asked police and Fire and Rescue services to prevent Simchat Torah gatherings at the Nova festival site in Re'im Forest, after last year's celebration there, with visitors dancing and camping, hurt bereaved families. Director General Ilan Shohat asked Police Commissioner Dani Levi and Southern District commander Haim Bublil to stop organized gatherings, overnight camping, fires and barbecues. Chairman Eyal Ostrinsky said celebrating where a massacre took place respects neither the site's sanctity nor Judaism. Police said they would coordinate with all relevant bodies to keep public order; Fire and Rescue said it had received no requests for large events apart from the annual October 7 memorial ceremony.

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of a bereaved mother in a green blouse kneeling with her head bowed as she tends her son's memorial, laid with red anemones, keepsakes and a blue-and-white flag, beside a red-and-white banner and rows of victims' photo placards at the Nova festival memorial site near Kibbutz Re'im, drawn from a July 2026 photograph; contextual image of the memorial site, not a depiction of a Simchat Torah gathering or of KKL-JNF's request to police.

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The October 7 Remembrance Day

71 events
  1. Knesset Passes National October 7 Memorial Framework
  2. High Court Rejects Alon Shamriz Fallen-Soldier Recognition Petition
  3. State Backs Kfar Aza Vote to Relocate October 7 Memorial Homes
  4. Eli Sharabi and Shani Cohen to Host October 7 Families’ Memorial
  5. Herzog Salutes Police Officers for October 7 Bravery and Daily Service
  6. State Department Postpones October 7 Memorial (Updated)
  7. KKL-JNF Asks Police to Bar Simchat Torah Festivities at Nova Massacre Site
  8. Ofakim Announces October 4-5 Community Memorial Program
  9. Avi Marciano Plays Noa's Captivity Recording at October Council Exhibition
  10. National Insurance Counts 87,286 Terror Victims Since October 7
  11. Defense Ministry Reports 1,318 Fallen Since October 7
  12. Eli Sharabi Urges Attendance at October 7 Memorial Expected to Draw Over 50,000
  13. Katz Orders Crossing Closures on October 5 and 7 for October 7 Commemorations

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