‘Our Duty as Survivors’: Israeli Concertgoer Vows to Go on Living after Harrowing Escape from Hamas

“Life is stronger than everything,” Omri Lendler said nearly a week after 1,300 Israeli civilians, including several friends of his, were slaughtered in the worst single-day assault on Jewish life since the Holocaust.

Lendler, a finance professional based in Tel Aviv, has struggled to process the reality of narrowly escaping the rampaging Hamas terrorists and attending the funerals of friends who weren’t so lucky.