Yulia Waxer Daunov's Story to Be Featured at International Yom HaZikaron Ceremony

The Jerusalem Post reported that Yulia Waxer Daunov's story will be told at Masa Israel Journey’s International Yom HaZikaron Ceremony this year.

The ceremony is the world’s largest English-language memorial event dedicated to lone soldiers and victims of terror from the Diaspora. Samuel Daunov will recite Kaddish at the ceremony for Yulia Waxer Daunov and a generation of lives cut short.

Waxer Daunov was killed on October 7, 2023, while trying to evacuate civilians from the Supernova music festival, the Jerusalem Post reported.

M. that day, Samuel Daunov received an accidental phone call from Yulia Waxer Daunov's phone during an explosion. One minute after the phone call, Samuel Daunov sent Yulia Waxer Daunov a WhatsApp message.

For 10 days after October 7, 2023, Samuel Daunov and his children lived in uncertainty before receiving official confirmation of Yulia Waxer Daunov's death.

Waxer Daunov joined the police force in 2007 as part of her compulsory service and served in the Southern District, according to the Jerusalem Post.

After her compulsory service, Yulia Waxer Daunov remained in the police system first as a civilian employee and later as a full police officer. She served as head of the office of the Southern District operations branch’s chief of operations.

She met Samuel Daunov at a club when she was 17 and he was 20.

Daunov was born on July 27, 1986, in Ukraine to Yelena and Alexander Waxer, the Jerusalem Post reported.

In 1996, Yulia Waxer Daunov's family immigrated to Israel with her older sister Victoria when she was nine and a half years old. The family's aliyah to Israel in 1996 was motivated by Jewish identity rather than desperation, according to Victoria. At 15 years old, Yulia Waxer Daunov joined a youth patrol that worked alongside police and parents to maintain order in Beersheba at night.