Omer Adam performing “Human Tissue.” Photo: Screenshot

Israeli pop singer Omer Adam performed a song on Monday during Israel’s torch lighting ceremony for Yom Hazikaron that commemorated the victims murdered by Hamas during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel.

The torch lighting ceremony on Monday night concluded Yom Hazikaron in Israel and marked the start of Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut) celebrations. This year, instead of taking place in front of a live audience, the torch lighting ceremony was filmed and recorded in advance, and celebrations were toned down out of respect for those affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre.

Twelve torches are traditionally lit in memory of fallen soldiers and the victims of terror attacks. This year, families of those slaughtered in the Oct. 7 attacks were given the honor of lighting some of the torches. They were lit in cities around Israel impacted by the attack including near Re’im, where the Supernova music festival was held. The final torch was left unlit to symbolize the Israeli hostages still being held captive in Gaza.

Hamas terrorists murdered 364 civilians at the Supernova festival and roughly 1,200 in total across southern Israel during the early hours of Oct. 7 last year. A total of 252 people were kidnapped by Hamas that day and taken to the Gaza Strip and 128 remain in the Palestinian enclave, according to Israeli tallies.

On the site of the Supernova festival, Adam performed the song “Human Tissue,” originally written by Moti Hamer and Chava Alberstein. Families of the those murdered on Oct. 7 backed him up with vocals while they held pictures of their loved ones.

“When I’ll die, something from me will die within you. When you’ll die, something from you within me will die along with you,” Adam sang in the ballad. “Because all of us, yes, all of us … All of us are just a living human tissue. And if one of us fades away, something from us dies along. And something else, stays within him.”

Adam wrote in an Instagram post that through the heartbreaking song he hopes to send strength to all those who lost loved ones in the Oct. 7 attacks. He said he also prays for the speedy return of the hostages who remain held in the Gaza Strip.

He further sings in “Human Tissue”: “If we only knew, how to calm the hatred, if only we knew how. If we only knew how to silence our rage to say we are sorry, though we already got offended. If we only knew how to begin fresh from the start.”

 

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