Tel Aviv – Eyal Waldman said goodbye to his youngest daughter, 24-year-old Danielle Waldman, on Thursday.
“Today we buried my daughter, my youngest daughter, Danielle,” Waldman told CBS News foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata. “She was a great girl, only 24, and never did anything bad to anyone.”
Danielle Waldman, a California native, and her boyfriend Noam Shai were fatally shot as they tried to flee the Supernova Trance music festival in the southern Israeli desert when Hamas militants arrived from the Gaza Strip in the early hours of October 7 invaded the region.
They were among at least 260 festival-goers killed in the surprise attack, according to Israeli officials.
“They were attacked by five terrorists from two sides, three from behind,” Waldman said of Danielle and Shai.
Footage of their bullet-riddled car showed the ferocity of the attack.
In December 2019, “60 Minutes” profiled Eyal Waldman. At the time, the high-tech executive was building his business by building bridges and employing Palestinians in the West Bank for his leading computer chip company.
“I want to work for peace,” Waldman told “60 Minutes” at the time. “I want to work with the Palestinians. But if I think you threaten anything I care about, I will kill you.”
Now that he has lost what is more important to him than anything else, the former Israeli commando commander says those behind the attack should pay the price.
“You know, in the short term, we need to solve this problem,” Waldman said. “Maybe not in a peaceful way. And we have to show strength, and we have to be strong.”
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Israeli businessman who sought to employ Palestinians loses daughter in music festival massacre