Andrei Kozlov, a rescued Israeli hostage following his kidnapping from the Nova music festival in October 2023, paints the scene of his rescue at a studio in New York City on April 24, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
As gunshots rang out through the Nova music festival grounds on Oct. 7, 2023, Andrei Kozlov, bewildered and terrified, jumped into a car with two strangers he thought were fleeing to safety.
Ten minutes into the harrowing ride, he realized an ugly truth.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
