Testimony Excerpt
“All around there’s shooting..ta ta ta ta”- Debi Oulu recounts Oct 7 at Tel Or farm
The Full Testimony
Testimony of
Debi Oulu
Debi Oulu, an artist, came to the desert to spend the weekend as part of a gathering of the planning committee for MidBurn Festival. The event, dubbed as Israel’s Burning Man, was scheduled for the following month. On Saturday morning, she woke up in her sleeping bag with the sound of rockets. Debi set out to leave, but wasn’t sure whether that was the right thing to do. The decision to turn around and go back saved her life.
Place of the event:
Midburn
Name:
Debi Oulu
Organization:
None
Language:
English
Credit:
Videography: Charles Yacoub
Interview: Rivka Tenenbaum-Precel
Video editing: Inbal Sprinzak
Content editing: Talya Tibbon
Sound editing: Ophir Lokay Eliassaf
Other media
Channa Perri
Channa, age 71, was abducted from her home in Nirim early that morning, along with her son Nadav, both were in a medically complex condition.
Tamar Metzger
Tamar was in the shower on Shabat morning when she heard voices in the living room and Yoram, her husband, responding in Arabic. The bathroom door was yanked open, and she was grabbed and then dragged out from her house.
Eyal Dvori
Eyal Dvori, a member of Kibbutz Be'eri, headed the 12th grade cohort at Nofey HaBsor High School. On October 7, he and his family were abroad, following the events from afar, in horror and helplessness. A student from the cohort was murdered, and a teacher was kidnapped.
Maor Ben Yair
A group of friends went to Nova Festival to celebrate Maor's birthday. They had an extraordinarily fun time. At the 6:20, with the sunrise, there was a Red Alert.
Deborah Mintz
“Another couple of hours we would have been dead anyways”- Deborah Mintz on 7.10 in Nirim
Tamar Livyatan
From Tamar Livyatan's testimony: "I have a daughter and granddaughter here, and I am not leaving without them."
Judith Bdolach
From Judith Bdolach's testimony: "What should have been a calm and quiet work-out, turned into a nightmare"
