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Noa Argamani opened up about what it was like to be held hostage by Hamas for 245 days when she walked the red carpet at the gala celebrating TIME’s 2025 list of the world’s most influential people on April 24 in New York City.

Argamani attended the Nova Music Festival where Hamas launched the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack that led to the Israel-Hamas war. She recently found it hard to attend the Nova Exhibition, a traveling exhibit on the festival and the conflict. As she put it, “It was too much to handle. Too much to carry.” But it was a must-see, she said.

Read more: https://time.com/collections/time100-summit-gala-2025/7279200/noa-argamani-2/

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