Keshet Casarotti Kalfa

Age: 21

From: Kibbutz Samar

In Loving Memory of the Innocent Souls Taken Too Soon. United in peace, their light shines on in the hearts left behind. October 7, 2023, a day of sorrow, but their memories guide us toward a hopeful tomorrow.

Keshet z'"l was killed at the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re'im.
Keshet spent time with his friends from all over the world at the Nova music festival. Partying was not a new thing for Keshet, who just returned from a summer of music festivals in Europe with the same group. Keshet and his friends already had plans for after the party. They planned to return to his home in Kibbutz Samar in the Arava. Keshet longed to show his friends from the world the kibbutz - to brag about the lush dunes, the date plantation and the barn, things they had never seen before me. "Parties, people, nature, that's what my child likes," says his mother. Rain, floods in the desert, all these will not prevent him from going to his favorite parties."

Per his mother, Natalia, "The moment he was born, and not only because he was handsome. "He had a huge smile and a huge heart from a young age," says Natalia. "If I gave him a chocolate cube, he would insist on giving me half, always happy to help everyone: carry, clear, throw away the clippings. Recently I realized that this attitude of his only got more and more extreme as he grew older. His friends told me that he bought a bottle of whiskey for hundreds of shekels and gave it away Chasers for strangers. He said: 'Why have fun alone when you can have fun together?'. He was also a terribly energetic child. At the age of five he started making merry-go-rounds and would walk on his hands from the house to the dining room. The whole kibbutz thought that this boy should go to the circus. But his biggest dream at that age was to be a pirate. He had a book about pirates that I read him stories from, he had a pirate camp outside the house, and on Purim he of course dressed up as a pirate. In the last two years of his life, Keshet traveled to so many place."

In a moving article, Keshet's mother shared her journey during the first few days of the war, while her son was still missing:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-10/ty-article-opinion/my-son-has-been-missing-since-saturday-god-please-give-me-answers/0000018b-1959-d2fc-a59f-d959a60c0000

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Dear family of Keshet
I saw the documentary of the Nova music festival on the BBC a few weeks ago… A year ago I was completely devastated with the news, praying and hoping that people would survive and feeling with the families…now I still am devastated for your loss. Just want to let you know that Keshet is in my thoughts..The images in the documentary made a big impression, what a beautiful person. I am from the Netherlands and worked in the past for an Israeli company there. Keshet will Beste remembered..

By: Tanja , None

From: Apeldoorn, Netherlands

I'm so sorry for your loss. Keshet was a shining light, as were so many at the Nova Festival. Keshet wasn't taken away by evil, though what happened was truly evil. He was taken to heaven to be with God, so he would not have to see any more of the evil of this world. The world is less without him, but I pray his memory is always a blessing and his love is always in your heart. I'm praying for you. May God bring you comfort and strength until you can be with Keshet again.

By: Amy

From: Canada

C’était un garçon lumineux, une âme évoluée et douce qui prêchait l’amour et le rapprochement entre les gens.

Sa famille et ses amis disent de lui qu’il était une boule d’énergie et une bête de fête, avec ses longues boucles blondes et son esprit curieux. Il était passionné par les pirates et son plat préféré était les pâtes bolognaises.

Bien que n’ayant pas grandi dans la religion, ses proches ont indiqué qu’il avait commencé à s’y intéresser depuis quelques années et qu’il avait même assisté à un office dans une synagogue de Tel Aviv à l’occasion de Simhat Torah, la veille de la rave Supernova.

Keshet a été porté disparu pendant quatre jours, jusqu’à ce que son corps soit retrouvé à une intersection et sa mort déclarée. Il a été enterré le 12 octobre au kibboutz Samar.

La réalité de ses proches maintenant, c’est la pierre tombale de Keshet, sa mère, quelques jours après son décès, dit avoir vu un papillon qui semblait venir de façon insistante plusieurs jours de suite et virevoltait auprès des membres de la famille .
S’il vous plait ce soir prenez le temps d’allumer une bougie en son honneur car il a marché sur le sentier de la mort au lieu de mériter une belle vie.
Mon coeur est languissant et mélancolique quand je pense à Keshet et à sa courte vie.

Keshet, tu aurais pu être le héros du film « mort à Venise » tellement ton visage est d’une pure beauté surement le reflet d’une âme de poète naïf.

J’espère que ton meurtrier lui marche sur les braises ardentes de l’enfer éternellement.

A Keshet, gentil poète du nova Festival dans un monde perdu 🫶

By: Charlotte , Aucune

From: France