Israel: October 7 families remember victims as voters head to polls

Families affected by the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023 gathered in Tel Aviv on Tuesday to honour relatives killed that day, observing a minute's silence before joining together in song beside a white installation bearing the date “ 7.10.23 ”. Holding photographs of their loved ones, participants included Yona Adam , whose daughter Mapal was killed at the Nova music festival, and Einav Zangauker , mother of former hostage Matan Zangauker. The commemoration took place as Israelis headed to the polls on Tuesday, 27 October , for their first general election since the attacks , voting to elect the 26th Knesset . In Kiryat Arba , an Israeli settlement near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, voters queued outside polling stations.