Eden Yerushalmi

Eden Yerushalmi from Tel Aviv is full of life and brings positive energies everywhere she goes. Her apartment is always filled with friends and music. Eden is a pilates instructor, she is very sportive and always in great shape. She rides a scooter, loves going to the beach, listening to music, and cooking. Eden is a person who always wears a smile on her face, dearly loved by her family and friends.
Eden worked as a bartender in the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im. On the early morning hours of Saturday the 7th of October she called her family, screaming over the noise of terrorists’ gunfire. Eden recounted her harrowing escape from the massacre and the devastating sight of her friends in the car bleeding out, lifeless.
Both she and her sisters, Shani and May, anxiously connected over the phone, shared this distress for 3.5 hours. During the call, they helplessly listened as Eden was found and abducted by Hamas terrorists. "'Shani, they've caught me' Eden said before the call was disconnected.
Beautiful Eden spent her 24th birthday in captivity, in the underground tunnels of Hamas in Gaza.