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.
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."
Pessi Cohen's house became a symbol for the battles that went on in Be'eri, and the fight there lasted for about six hours.
Jerusalem Post photojournalist Chen Schimmel won the top prize of the Eretz Israel Museum's prestigious Local Testimony 2024 competition, for her photo of a ZAKA volunteer in Be'eri post-Oct. 7.
Golan’s version of the song is a tough act to follow, but Hamati and Weiss, on a night in which the competitors were paired off to perform duets, proved that they were up to the task.
Emily remains a textbook case of PTSD. “She’s living day to day, enjoying every day,” her father says with a dash of optimism.
“You can’t unsee the sights,” a reporter friend had warned me.
The first branch opened as a pop-up in Tel Aviv’s glitzy Sarona complex, staffed by residents of Netiv Haasara, one of the communities targeted in the massacre.
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