Ronen Shalev, the father of Nova survivor Roey Shalev who took his own life, addressed the difficulties faced by families of Nova party survivors in an interview with Ynet. "These are 4,000 shattered families, 4,000 survivors who are somehow holding onto life. With treatments, without treatments, with support, without support, but they're hanging on to life with great difficulty," Shalev said. According to him, his goal is "to push for and establish an organized and professional system specifically for treating Nova families. I call them Nova families because it's something very broad, it's entire families, it's the survivors and the parents and the siblings who are paying the price."