The Jewish wartime wedding in Israel that defied Hamas terrorism

On Oct. 4, New Yorkers Jonathan Bichoupan and Channi Greenwall touched down in Jerusalem roughly one week before 200 guests were scheduled to join them from the United States.

Channi and Jonathan had originally planned to work remotely from Jerusalem until their Oct. 15 wedding date. All of that changed on the morning of Oct. 7, when the pair awoke to the blaring sound of rocket sirens and phones buzzing with notifications."We started reading about all the devastation of what's going on and how there are terrorists running around Israel kidnapping and murdering people," Jonathan recounted.

Jonathan phoned his rabbi."The last thing you're going to do is postpone a wedding, no matter what," the man told Jonathan, whose family was urging him to come home. Jonathan and Channi rode on a bus with around 15 or 20 people, a collection of friends already in Israel who planned to be at the original wedding five days later. One attendee's nephew had escaped the Oct. 7 festival days earlier. The rabbi told his students to come to the wedding.It was three or four hours of dancing and singing, Israeli men and women, gender-segregated and joined by a small cohort of American Jews chanting,"The people of Israel live" over and over.

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