Rom Braslavski was working security at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists overran it and abducted him to Gaza.

Held for nearly two years by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Braslavski was shown in captivity skeletal and weeping. After his October 2025 release, he described regular beatings and said he had been stripped, bound, and subjected to sexual violence intended to humiliate him.