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‘All is dead inside’: Nova massacre survivor who saw girlfriend murdered in front of him dies by suicide
October 11, 2025

Roei Shalev, who survived the October 7 massacre but saw his girlfriend murdered in front of him, died by suicide on Friday, three days after the second anniversary of the tragedy. “Please don’t be angry with me, please. No one will ever understand me, and that’s okay because you cannot understand,” he wrote in a message posted to social media, before driving off to a remote location and setting his car on fire. “I just want this suffering to end. I’m alive, but all is dead inside.” On October 7 Shalev and his girlfriend Mapal Adam were at the Nova rave, the site of that day’s worst carnage. READ MORE