OTTAWA — I first met Rami Davidian at the Nova Music Festival site in southern Israel last March.

Upon arriving at the site — a sandy, lightly-treed lot in the Negev desert full of memorials to the victims of Palestinian terror kilometres from Gaza — everyone knew who he was.

I remember a man with tears in his eyes approaching Davidian, sobbing something in Hebrew as the two men embraced.

Davidian’s story became a rare tale of hope in the wake of the tragedy that was Oct. 7, 2023.

Summoned from his home in nearby Moshav Patish via a frantic WhatsApp message begging rescue of a young man caught in the attack, the heroism and bravery Davidian displayed were only matched by the horrors he was forced to witness.

“This is a different way of therapy,” Davidian told me this week, in Ottawa a

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