Northeastern students in Israel during Hamas attack safely evacuated with help of university global security team

October 17, 2023

The three Northeastern students in Israel when Hamas launched a surprise attack have been safely evacuated.

Jesse Ruigomez, DMSB'25, was in Tel Aviv working as a financial planning and analysis co-op in when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel. Ruigomez was relatively far away from the violence and has been safely evacuated.

“Fortunately, I was in central Israel and not in the south where things are really bad since they were using short-range rockets,” he said. “I was safe, but it's a horrible situation all around.”

Two other Northeastern students were also in Israel at the time of the attack and have been safely evacuated as well.