Live updates: Israel marks three-year anniversary of Oct. 7 attack

Memorials are being held at homes, roadsides, kibbutzim and a music festival site.

Loved ones of the lost and kidnapped gather at the site of the Nova music festival. Leon Neal / Getty Images

Israel's National Security Council has warned Israelis living abroad to exercise "heightened vigilance" amid an "increased risk of attempted attacks against Israelis and Jews abroad," on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks.

In a statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, the public was urged to "refrain from posting details about travel plans abroad on social media in advance" as well as "posting content on social media that indicates service in the security forces."

Travelers were also urged to avoid traveling to Jordan, Qatar, Somaliland, and Egypt and "minimize speaking Hebrew in crowded areas."

The extraordinary thing about her son was that he was “totally ordinary,” the mother of an Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin told NBC News.

Three years after he was taken from the Nova music festival in southern Israel, Rachel Goldberg-Polin said there was “always a temptation, especially when young people are killed in tragic ways, to mythologize them or lionize them.”

But for her Hersh “was the perfect match,” she…

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