Our Mission
The Guy & Jake Fund was established in 2025 as a lasting memorial in honour of two young heroes from the Nova Festival, Guy Simhi & Jake Marlowe.
Our objective is to provide emergency medical equipment to the communities devastated by the horrific events of October 7th, 2023.
Jake Marlowe
Jake was born in London on July 9th, 1997, the eldest child of Lisa and Michael Marlowe.
He received a full Jewish education starting at Wolfson Hillel and culminating at JFS.
School is not for everyone.
By his own admission he did not like school, saying “the best thing about JFS was the day I left and the friends I made”
He flunked both his music and Hebrew GCSE’s.
Both though were to play a huge part in his short life, and both were passions of his.
Soon after leaving school, he enrolled at a London music college and that is where he began to hone his musical skills.
He formed various bands at a very young age, wrote the lyrics and the music and started touring.
His genre was called Hard Core.
A few years later he was asked to join one of the largest bands of that genre and they were called Desolated.
They toured the world and played to audiences as large as ten thousand people.
Jake became known as the Riff Lord
In between tours, in 2021 he came home to recharge his batteries, to see his beloved younger sister Natasha, to meet up again with his old friends but most of all to sample his mum’s much missed cooking.
It was then that Jake saw the rise of antisemitic hate in the UK and in November 2021 he made Aliyah.
Why? Because he did not feel safe in England, he did not like this country and did not see a future for this country.
What a visionary he was at just 24 years young.
Not for Jake the bright lights of Israel’s major cities, instead he chose Ma’alot in Israel's north.
As he had befriended an Israeli on a chat group whose name was Shlomi Ziv.
He soon became totally fluent in Ivrit.
In early 2023 he fell head over heals in love with his beautiful new girlfriend called Shira.
On that day from hell, October 7th 2023, Jake was working unarmed security at the Nova Peace Festival.
Jake was utterly heroic in his final moments, shepherding countless party goers to safety and ultimately sacrificing his young life as he was brutally cut down in a hail of bullets.
Shlomi Ziv was taken hostage, another friend Aviv was also murdered that day.
There are many people, mostly unknown to Jake, who owe their lives to Jake's heroic actions that morning.
Yakov Avraham ben Moshe was brought home to be buried in England.
He was 26.
He was and still is his parents’ life’s masterpiece.
Guy Simhi
Guy Simhi, was born in 2003 in Kibbutz Re’im and was the youngest of Orit and Dedy's three sons.
The family moved to Gedera and Guy excelled at everything he did: at school, in sports and he was known as an independent soul and a natural leader.
When he joined the IDF he passed selection into Sayret Tzanchanim, the elite, special forces battalion of the Israeli Paratroopers.
Guy was an outstanding soldier and quickly rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant. He was described by his former platoon commander as a “beast of a man” and the soul of the unit. By October 7 2023 he was the platoon sergeant … the second in command of the platoon and a man who had gained the admiration and respect of the unit.
On October 7 he was on leave from the army and went to the Nova festival with a friend. When the Hamas attack started he and his friend escaped the attack, picking up survivors as they went and made their way to his friend’s home at the nearby Kibbutz Re’im.
Here they placed the survivors they had saved into safe rooms and then made their way back to festival to help evacuate more people … a trip they made several times, in all bringing 32 people to safety.
After their last trip back to the festival site Hamas terrorists had fully infiltrated into Re’im.
Although they had one firearm Guy knew that the use of a gun would draw attention. As the terrorists entered into the house Guy successfully fought off 3 separate terrorists with nothing but his bare hands, defending his fellow citizens.
When hand grenades were thrown into the house Guy tried to escape through a window but was shot as he left the house.
Through his actions it was very clear that Guy knew the level of danger he was exposing himself to, but true to his nature, he still put the safety of others ahead of himself.
Through his bravery all of the 32 people he helped evacuated and defend in that house survived the onslaught.
He died at about 9am on the morning of October 7th. His father, Dedy, who had served many years in the area, entered the shattered kibbutz on the night of the 7th / 8th October to recover his youngest boy.
Guy was 20 years old.
Our mission is to provide medical supplies to communities in
We supply individual and community size medical kits to provide immediate assistance and life saving care in emergency situations.
An individual medical kit costs c.£80
A community medical kit costs c.£1,000
Out Charitable Status
We are proud and grateful to have partnered with UK Toremet Limited a UK Registered Charity
Charity Number 1140972