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\u2018Bulletproof\u2019: The brief, beautiful life of Danielle Waldman | Israel-Palestine conflict<\/p>\n
KNOW THEIR NAMES<\/span><\/p>\n Danielle was just 24 when she and her partner, Noam Shay, were brutally killed by Hamas at Supernova Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n As the daughter of Israeli tech billionaire, philanthropist and peace ambassador Eyal Waldman, 24-year-old Danielle inherited her father\u2019s belief that Jews and Arabs could work together. He hired more than 200 Palestinian engineers at Mellanox, the tech firm he co-founded in 1999 and led until 2020, believing that working together could lead to peace.<\/p>\n \u201cDanielle was the same as me. She believed we must strive for peace. She worked with me as often as she could,\u201d Eyal, who raised $360,000 for an oncology ward at a Gaza hospital in 2020, recalls.<\/p>\n \u201cShe always thought that doing good things for other people was the best way to be. She knew many of my Palestinian friends and was friends with them, too, and she was always thinking of other people without thinking of herself. She helped so many people during her short life.\u201d<\/p>\n Danielle was with her boyfriend, 26-year-old Noam Shay, at the Supernova music festival which was taking place close to kibbutz Re\u2019im near the Gaza border when it was attacked by Hamas on October 7. Some 364 people were killed and 40 were taken hostage by Hamas, according to the first Israeli police report into the attack.<\/p>\n Danielle and Noam had met six years earlier when they were both serving in the Israeli military and had been inseparable ever since.<\/p>\n \u201cThey had just started talking about getting married,\u201d Eyal explains. \u201cBut instead of a wedding, we held a funeral and buried them together.\u201d<\/p>\n Many of the hundreds of Israeli, Palestinian citizens of Israel and foreigners murdered by Hamas fighters at the Supernova music festival sent their loved ones text and voice messages saying goodbye. But Eyal didn\u2019t even have that.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t get to say goodbye to her. She sent a text message to say she was OK at 6:30am.\u00a0That was the last we heard of her.\u00a0At least I have that,\u201d he says. \u201cI also have a video of when they were in the car before they were murdered and an audio recording from one of her friends who was wounded. But by that time,\u00a0she\u00a0was probably\u00a0already\u00a0dead.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDanielle was amazing.\u00a0She couldn\u2019t hurt a fly and she loved everyone. Anyone who came into contact with her loved her, too,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \u201cMy ex-wife [Danielle\u2019s mother] called me the other day to tell me\u00a0she had a dream about\u00a0their wedding,\u201d Eyal says, choking up with tears.<\/p>\n Despite his unbearable loss, Eyal says he does not regret working with Palestinians and remains optimistic that the day will come when the two people will coexist in peace. He also has reason to believe the current war may turn out to be a catalyst or trigger for reconciliation: \u201cAfter the [Yom Kippur] war of 1973, we started the peace process with Egypt and signed an agreement with them. There\u2019s no reason that cannot happen again. We need to resolve this conflict. We\u2019ve been killing each other for 75 years.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked about the memory of his daughter he holds most dear, he recalls a skiing holiday in France when Danielle began dancing spontaneously.<\/p>\n \u201cShe loved to dance. She was dancing all the time,\u201d he says. \u201cI just posted a video from that day when she was dancing in France and my three kids joined in. It was the song, Titanium, that says \u2018I\u2019m bulletproof\u2019. It\u2019s the best memory I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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