In today’s wars, music is a universal balm

In what was billed as a “healing concert,” tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday for a music festival. The purpose was to support the survivors and bereaved families of those lost during the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Yet one former hostage, Omer Wenkert, told the crowd of another purpose:

“I call for unity – that we, as a people, begin to pick up the broken pieces and rise from them. To lift what lies within us,” he said. “As a people, we will heal this wound.”

Another survivor at the concert, Joy Cohen, told The Times of Israel, “Everyone who has gone through the worst of the worst can come together and share light.”

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