"After the Hamas Attack" | Lecture and talk on the current situation in Israel

After the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, nothing was the same for the people of Israel from one day to the next. The shock is deep-seated and the question of how it could have come to this, to having been at the mercy of this attack without protection, is more than pressing. Equally pressing is the question of when and how the more than one hundred hostages, who are still in the hands of Hamas, can be released. Is a ceasefire possible and will they then be released? How can life actually go on after this experience and after the war?

Ayelet Bargur and Dani Engel talk about the before and after of October 7, 2023, about the current situation in Israel and what has changed forever…

Ayelet Bargur, born in San Francisco in 1969, lives in Israel. She studied film and art studies as well as film directing and production at Tel Aviv University. Her documentaries and feature films critically reflect daily life in Israel and have been awarded important prizes and shown at international festivals. Ayelet Bargur received a scholarship from the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program for her research on the film and book project “Ahawah heißt Liebe”. “The House On August Street” received the “Second Prize for Best Documentary” at the Haifa International Film Festival in 2007 and the “Grand Prix for Documentary” from CIRCOM in 2008.

Dani Engel is the brother of Ronen Engel, who he said was a “terrible optimist”. Ronan Engel, his wife and children were kidnapped by Hamas in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and taken hostage. His brother found out about his kidnapping when he opened Ronen’s Facebook page; Hamas had filmed the kidnapping. Ronen was murdered and his family was released after 52 days on November 27.

Series of events: “We need, need, need to talk”, sponsored by “Demokratie leben!”