Be'eri is a kibbutz in southern Israel, close to the Gaza border. Established in 1946, Be'eri was heavily impacted in the October 7 massacre in 2023, with several buildings destroyed and many residents killed, wounded, and taken hostage. The other residents were forced to evacuate from the town as the war raged on.
Hamas’s propaganda is fooling the West, whitewashing its brutality while Israeli hostages endure starvation and torture. The world must stop enabling their lies.
Sharabi told Israeli forces he was looking forward to reuniting with his wife and daughters, unaware of their tragic fate for 491 days.
Hamas had initially delayed providing the list of the three hostages they would release.
Like the incredible women who came before her (Neta Barzilai, Noa Kirel, and so on.), she will deal with just a little bit of the punches headed her way, her head still held high.
Shoham’s wife and children were also taken captive by Hamas and held together but separately from Tal.
Artist Marla Buck believes that “behind an expression of any art form, there needs to be an emotive, even transformative, message.”
Kislev, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, channels the trauma of the October 7 attack on his community into this series of paintings.
There is a great sense of heaviness here, as I witnessed most directly in Be’eri this week, but there is also tremendous light and hope for the future, as experienced with our brave soldiers on base.
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Ben Ami called on the public to help do everything they can "so that those who need to decide if there is a deal make a deal."
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