KIBBUTZIM RE’IM/BE’ERI, Israel — The tractors that recently dug graves are being prepared to farm again. Three weeks after the unprecedented Hamas attack in which residents of kibbutzim were tortured ...

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(CNN) — On the morning of October 7, Hamas fighters streamed into the quiet lanes of kibbutz Alumim, setting off on a rampage of killing and destruction. But most of their victims in the community ...

[This is the eighth post in my series on my mission to Israel. You can read Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII.] The concept of an Israeli Kibbutz is likely foreign to most readers. Historically at ...

Warning: Some images may contain graphic content. SHEFAYIM KIBBUTZ, Israel − From thousands of miles above, Kfar Aza kibbutz looks like a misshapen stop sign filled with a patchwork of modest homes ...

Scorch marks and bullet holes scar the battered walls of the Haran family home in kibbutz Be’eri. Its tiled roof has caved in, windows smashed, littering the floors with sharp shards of terracotta and ...

Over time, people in the kibbutzim and in Gaza – captured by Israel during the 1967 war – settled into a sort of tacit acceptance. Thousands of Palestinians crossed daily to work on Israeli farms.

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