At the memorial event for the Nova community that was held in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park on Thursday, everyone was dancing with tears in their eyes. Before the sun set, those tears were visible everywhere. The event, The Nova Healing Concert, was planned as a unique musical commemoration of the 360-plus people who were killed in and around the Nova trance music festival next to Kibbutz Re'im on October 7.
But it also sought to make good on the promise that has become the community's new motto: "We will dance again.".
