Ozeri was in Expo Tel Aviv, a sprawling complex in the city’s north where the Nova music festival — which ended when Hamas attacked on October 7 — has been recreated in exacting detail.

At least 364 party-goers were murdered and 40 taken hostage at the festival on Kibbutz Re’im, which quickly became a powerful symbol of Israel’s loss.

Ozeri, like so many others, spent hours running away with “bullets flying over your head,” losing his jewellery as he scrambled in a forested area near the festival site.

He said visiting the exhibit — with its incinerated cars, bullet-ridden portable toilets and piles of personal items — was not easy but felt essential.

“It really brings me back there and the horrific pain of that moment, but we have to return there to commemorate what happened and remember our friends who were killed there,” Ozeri said.

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