Kibbutz Be'eri

Former hostage Eli Sharabi, actress Shani Cohen to host October 7 remembrance ceremony

The independent ceremony, called the National Memorial Ceremony of October 7 Families, is organized by Kumu, an Israeli movement dedicated to ensuring the lessons of October 7 are not forgotten.

An illustration of Israelis attending a memorial service for the October 7 massacre in Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv.
Freed Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, gesture, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025

Palestinian rejectionism, not poverty, remains the main obstacle for peace with Israel - opinion

Cafe Chico in Sderot, July 20, 2026

Population booming three years after Oct. 7, Sderot looks to show visitors city's resiliency

 Kfar Azza faces the task of rebuilding its community.

Tekuma marks 1,000 days since Oct. 7 as final communities prepare to return


The West is enabling Hamas’s propaganda and the hostages are paying the price - opinion

Hamas’s propaganda is fooling the West, whitewashing its brutality while Israeli hostages endure starvation and torture. The world must stop enabling their lies.

 HOSTAGE ELI SHARABI is released by Hamas terrorists this past Saturday. While comparisons to the Holocaust are often avoided, Holocaust survivors themselves have spoken out, drawing chilling parallels to concentration camps, the writer notes.

Ex-hostage Eli Sharabi learned of wife, daughters' October 7 murders upon release

Sharabi told Israeli forces he was looking forward to reuniting with his wife and daughters, unaware of their tragic fate for 491 days.

 Released hostage Eli Sharabi reunited with his family following his release from Gaza, February 8, 2025

Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami freed from Hamas as part of hostage deal's fifth wave

Hamas had initially delayed providing the list of the three hostages they would release.

 Hostages Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami are scheduled to return from Gaza captivity Saturday, February 7, 2025 (illustration).

Yuval will make us proud at Eurovision - editorial

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.

 Yuval Raphael is the winner of the Rising star 2025 finale and will represent Israel in the Eurovision.

Who is Tal Shoham, one of the hostages from Kibbutz Be’eri freed on Saturday?

Shoham’s wife and children were also taken captive by Hamas and held together but separately from Tal.

Freed hostage Tal Shoham reunited with his family after his return from Gaza, February 22, 2025

'We will begin again': Marla Buck brings healing through art

Artist Marla Buck believes that “behind an expression of any art form, there needs to be an emotive, even transformative, message.”

NECKLACE FROM Buck’s current collection, designed and created by Marla Buck and Shirley Zafir.

From kibbutz to canvas

Kislev, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, channels the trauma of the October 7 attack on his community into this series of paintings.

 HARAN KISLEV (left) with Yaron Haramati, curator and manager of Zemack Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv.

Great heaviness melding with tremendous light - opinion

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.

 Photos of the destruction in Kibbutz Be'eri taken in the beginning of November 2023.

The book of Exodus: Our resilience and ability to grow from trauma

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 Ofra Keidar Hyd, and daughter Yael.

'The uncertainty kills:' Hostage's daughter describes impact of negotiation reports

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."

 A display set up for a ceremony to mark Ohad Ben Ami's second birthday in captivity.