Kibbutz

WATCH: In burned-out Be’eri homes, Magen 48 prepares local responders for future attacks

Magen 48 says its mission is to ensure that Israeli communities are ready to defend themselves until army forces arrive.

 Magen 48 trains local security teams within the burnt ruins of Kibbutz Be’eri.
Young adults sit beside winter umbrellas on the forest-side deck at Slowness, soaking in the quiet, pastoral atmosphere as soft sunlight filters through the trees.

Slowness: The healing village in Israel's Lower Galilee that restores body and mind

Cleaning the Dizengoff fountain from old photographs of the victims of the Octoner 7 massacre, and placing new ones ahead of the 2 year memorial of the massacre, in Tel Aviv, October 5, 2025.

Jewish extremist attacks in the West Bank threaten Israel’s legitimacy - opinion

 Smoke billows over northern Israel after rockets were fired from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, by Israel's border with Lebanon, May 17, 2024.

Resilience on the frontlines: A year after returning to Kibbutz Dafna - opinion


Community resilience and trust: the road to returning home - opinion

To ensure the return of the communities to their homes, they need to remain as communities. The tools required here are not only tractors, tanks, and machine guns.

 SECURITY FORCES are on the scene where a rocket fired from Lebanon wounded two people in Kiryat Shmona, last month.

War zone realities: Kibbutz life amid endless bombs, no services, neglected education

Witnessing the struggle: a resident shares the heartbreaking reality of eight kibbutzim near the Lebanon border, unaided amid a war zone.

 The Hezbollah outpost oversees the northern settlements.

Hamas massacre victims were feudal vassals, not 'privileged Israelis' - opinion

A fact largely unknown by the public, even in Israel, is that both the land and the housing are owned by the state, with property rights often worse than under feudal landlords.

 A view of houses in Kibbutz Kfar Aza four months after the October 7 massacre.

Reviving Israel’s periphery

Rashi Foundation CEO Michal Cohen on revitalizing war-torn communities

 (R to L) Michal Cohen, CEO Rashi Foundation; Yitzhak Danino, Mayor of Ofakim; and Oren Sagi, CEO Cisco Israel, at the Magnet youth center in Ofakim

Tours of October 7 massacre sites: Tourist attraction or solidarity mission? - opinion

It is not a tourist attraction – and shouldn’t become one. 

 A VISITOR walks through the ruins of Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

New housing for Nachal Oz evacuees: Where will it be established?

National Planning Council approves exemption and permit for housing complex, proposes Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek as the location.


Gaza border residents raise concerns over mental health, well-being

Insights from a comprehensive survey of the people from the Sdot Hanegev regional council.

 An Israeli soldier adjusts a weapon on top of a vehicle, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near Israel's border with Gaza, southern Israel January 21, 2024.

Finding hope amid the killing fields - opinion

This is our moment to be gutsy and inspired, to make Israel flourish again, like the red anemones making the Supernova killing fields bloom.

 ITAMAR ALUS reenacts his showdown with one of the Hamas invaders of Ofakim.

Association invests NIS 6 million to build home for disabled graduates

The house, unoccupied amid the ongoing war, aims to provide lodging to those with complex disabilities

 “Line for Life" Association

Freed hostage recounts torture of women in Gaza's terror tunnels - Washington Post

In an interview for international media, Agam Goldstein-Almog discussed Hamas's psychological torture, starvation, and her encounter with other female hostages in the tunnels beneath Gaza.

 Agam Almog-Goldstein