Margarita Gusak

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.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/margarita-gusak-21-artist-with-plans-to-attend-medical-school/