Lotan Abir

Lotan and his childhood friend, May Naim, were at the Nova festival when the attack occurred. Together, they fled from the party area towards Kibbutz Be'eri. They were tragically found lifeless, hugging each other, inside a shelter near the kibbutz.

His family said to reporters, "There was not a drop of evil in him, his whole being radiated good energy and love of life." Lotan was from Gan Haim, and at the conclusion of his military service he spent approximately a year in Utah, United States, where he developed a strong connection to the community. “He was the sort of person that you would want to call your friend,” Rabbi Avremi Zippel, the Chabad rabbi in Salt Lake City, told the Salt Lake Tribune. “He ultimately gave up his life for the sake of our people at a rave while celebrating some of his greatest passions in life… a kind, sweet, fun-loving, innocent soul who was massacred by a terrorist.”