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Margarita Gusak, 21: Artist with plans to attend medical school, Murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7
Times of Israel ^ | 6/19/24 | TOI Staff

Posted on 06/19/2024 4:12:03 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie

Margarita “Rita” Gusak, 21, of Gan Yavne, was murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7.

She attended the rave with her boyfriend, Simon Vigdergaus, who was also murdered that day.

Her mother told the Telegraph that after the rocket sirens sounded, Rita texted her to say that they were planning on leaving via car. That was the last they heard from her.

Her family waited desperately for news for a week until they were informed that her body had been identified. She was buried on October 15 in Givat Brenner. She is survived by her parents, Valentina and Yigal (Igor).

According to media reports, she had moved to Israel from Russia more than a decade before she was killed. Her Facebook page identified her as originally hailing from St. Petersburg.

Both her parents are doctors, and Rita was planning on following them into the medical field.

Her father, Dr. Yigal Volodarsky of the Kaplan Medical Center, noted that “she dreamed of being a doctor, and she never got to find out that she got the [entrance exam] score she needed to be accepted, which came out three days after that dark Saturday.”

In high school, Rita was part of a STEM initiative and was a leader in the school’s robotics team. She was also a talented artist who shared her paintings and drawings on her Instagram page.

Her friend Shanie Kagan wrote on Facebook to “my friend, my sister.”

“The smartest person I knew, talented and intelligent, always dealing with the deep things in life,” she wrote. “A free and complicated soul, always searching for what is hidden.”

Asya Bobritskaya, a photographer and artist who often photographed Rita, wrote on Instagram: “Dear Rita, you were a dream.”

“It seems to me that I can reach out and touch you, but my hand draws emptiness,” she continued. “Somewhere in the universe, you are free and can do whatever you want. Any art. You were art yourself, God kissed you on the top of your head and took you for himself.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamas; hamasterrorists; hostages; israel; israelihostages; margaritagusak; medicalschool; medschool; murdered; oct7; supernova; terrorists

To freshen memories and resolve.

1 posted on 06/19/2024 4:12:03 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
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To: Uncle Miltie

Very lovely young woman. RIP


2 posted on 06/19/2024 4:14:16 PM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: Uncle Miltie; dforest

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4187758/posts?page=135#135


3 posted on 06/19/2024 4:23:23 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Jesus would not approve of what I’m thinking about the Hamas cowards when I look at this young womans beautiful picture and think of what she wanted to do with her life.

I hate that children are killed by Israeli bombs but WE killed a few million German, Japanese and Italian civilians.....it’s called WAR!...... so Hamas wanted a war, AND; 90% of Gaza adults voted for the bastards, so they killed their own children.

If you start a WAR don’t expect to not reap the whirlwind in blood of your innocents! (i.e. your children)

And, let’s not forget the American Main Stream Media. I wonder if they have a clue how much millions hate them. Yes “Hate”.


4 posted on 06/19/2024 4:54:53 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Cen-Tejas
And, let’s not forget the American Main Stream Media. I wonder if they have a clue how much millions hate them. Yes “Hate”.

Correct. 👍

5 posted on 06/19/2024 5:25:44 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Uncle Miltie

May her memory be a blessing


6 posted on 06/19/2024 5:28:11 PM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: Uncle Miltie

It’s too bad the Simians on hang gliders didn’t do raids on Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Yale and Columbia.


7 posted on 06/19/2024 5:50:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: ZinGirl
May her memory be a blessing

Amen
8 posted on 06/19/2024 5:56:06 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Take comfort in the fact that the “palestinians” would have likely used those deceased children as suicide bombers, or future terrorists.


9 posted on 06/19/2024 6:18:53 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Excellent point.


10 posted on 06/19/2024 6:49:44 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Uncle Miltie

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11 posted on 06/19/2024 7:15:14 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Uncle Miltie

RIP and may justice prevail.


12 posted on 06/19/2024 9:02:05 PM PDT by xp38
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To: af_vet_1981

And Amen✡️


13 posted on 06/20/2024 12:33:31 AM PDT by Menes
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To: Uncle Miltie

Islam declared itself at war by any and all means against anyone who is not them at its inception.


14 posted on 06/20/2024 2:06:28 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Cen-Tejas

I have always told people that God Forgives, I don’t when it comes to major stuff like this.

If you want forgiveness, pray to God, because if you piss me off, I won’t be in the forgiving mood.


15 posted on 06/20/2024 11:55:03 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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