Former hostage Noa Argamani marked the Jewish holiday of love, Tu B’Av, on Sunday with a message posted on social media addressed to her partner Avinatan Or , who is still in Hamas captivity in Gaza. Argamani and Or were kidnapped from the Supernova music festival near Re’im on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed the Gaza border and invaded southern Israel, murdering some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages. The two were separated during the abduction.
Argamani was rescued from Nuseirat in central Gaza by IDF forces in a daring daylight operation on June 8, along with hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv. In a post shared on Instagram on Sunday, Argamani reminisced about the previous times she had celebrated Tu B’Av — sometimes referred to as the “Jewish Valentine’s Day” — with Or. “Every year, you would bring me a bouquet of flowers and tell me a nice story about what Tu B’Av is actually about,” she wrote.
“How in the past, the girls would wear white and go out dancing in the vineyard in Shilo next to the full moon in order to find a groom.” “That’s why Tu B’Av symbolizes beauty and love,” she added. Her partner Or, the second of seven brothers, grew up in the West Bank settlement of Shilo.
Sharing a second image, this time of her kissing Or on the beach, Argamani wrote that she was “wishing us many more kisses and days full of love — together and not apart.” Footage of Argamani’s abduct.