Missing Israeli woman Shani Kupervaser’s boyfriend, Ohad Malul, anguishes over last minute decision to skip rave with her

The boyfriend of an Israeli woman still missing after attending the music festival stormed by bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists said he is living in agony after deciding to skip the rave at the last minute.

“I feel like I needed to go and be there with her. Maybe I could have done something different,” Ohad Malul told The Post over the phone, his voice cracking. “It’s killing me inside that I am not with her.” 

His girlfriend of two years, Shani Kupervaser, has not been seen or heard from since she fled the Tribe of Nova event in the Negev Desert with friends and was attacked by Hamas fighters with grenades and gunfire.

“We don’t know if she is alive, dead or if she is missing. We don’t know if she is kidnapped because nobody told us,” Malul said.

Palestinian terrorists paraglided across the border from Gaza and raided the event Saturday, killing at least 260 attendees and kidnapping dozens more.

Kupervaser — a 27-year-old economics student who had a job lined up for after graduation — went to the Nova festival with six friends, but Malul said he decided not to go since he was tired after just getting back from a trip to Paris.

“She said ‘I will come back, I won’t go for long…Everything is going to be OK’,” he said.

But that quickly changed when Malul, also 27, received a message from his girlfriend saying that she saw rockets overhead.

Kupervaser fled immediately with three friends in a car, heading towards her home in Be’er Sheva, but they came under gunfire and abandoned the vehicle to run into a roadside bomb shelter where people directed those fleeing to take cover.

It turned out to be a trap.

“They took 30 people inside and terrorists started throwing grenades inside it,” said Malul, recounting conversations he’s had with the friends who made it out alive.

A man inside the shelter bravely began catching the grenades and hurling them back out at the Hamas terrorists, and one of Kupervaser’s friends did the same.

“After five or six grenades, the terrorists got upset and got an RPG rocket and shot through the door,” Malul said.

They then went inside the shelter and “shot everywhere.”

Kupervaser became separated from her friends at that point as thick black smoke filled the shelter, according to her friends’ accounts.

“It is something that you can’t imagine, them throwing grenades in a small room just to kill everyone,” Malul said.

“The other people who survived can almost not talk. They are devastated,” he said, adding that another one of her friends who she fled with is missing.

Malul said his girlfriend, who he met at university, was not on any of the lists of the dead shared by Israeli authorities and hasn’t been found at any hospitals.

He feels his only option is to hope that she’s been kidnapped if that means she is still alive.

“I just hope that she is alive, that’s it. Just the hope,” Malul told The Post from Israel. “If they take her from me, my heart is going to break totally.”

He said Kupervaser’s 28th birthday is in just a few days and that she was about to begin a job at a highly competitive company.

“She is the smartest, [most] beautiful, kindest person I ever met. Everyone who meets her falls in love with her,” Malul said. “She was one of the best in economics. She did two degrees in four years.”

He told The Post they had just bought new furniture together and he planned to propose soon.

“I just hope that she comes home. I just want to hold her and tell her that I love her so much. She is the love of my life. She is the love of my life…I don’t care what happened, I just want her to be there,” he said, his voice trembling.