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Three years after 7 October, Israel is rebuilding. Homes are being repaired, communities are returning, and new neighbourhoods are rising from the destruction. But beneath this...
Three years after 7 October, the community still needs opportunities to come together. To remember those lost, to be with people who understand, and to acknowledge...
Stories of Israelis who risked their lives to defend their kibbutz communities shaped Cape Town’s commemoration of 7 October. The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) Cape...
JTA – Pro-Palestinian protests commemorating the third anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel were competing for attention with other domestic issues across Europe. Demonstrations...
JTA – Three years after paramedic Amit Mann, 22, was killed by Hamas while treating the wounded in Kibbutz Be’eri on 7 October, newly aired recordings...
JTA – Some 50 000 Israelis filled Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Wednesday night to mark three years since the 7 October attacks, at a bereaved...
JTA – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Thursday he was “proud to attend” the previous night’s 7 October vigil held by Israelis for...
JTA – Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters on Wednesday night overran a vigil marking 7 October attended by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The demonstrators swamped...
JTA – A year ago, after a screening at Baruch College of my documentary TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on New York City Streets, four different...
In a week in which the community is mourning the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, antizionist agitators chose to target South African Jews with...
Three years after 7 October, Doron Libshtein is still learning how to live with the loss of his brother Ofir, who died defending Kibbutz Kfar Aza....
Three Israeli women with South African roots were confronted with the unimaginable on 7 October. One lost her son in battle, one was taken hostage by...
Three years after 7 October it still feels like it happened yesterday, or was just a nightmare we needed to wake up from and were never...
Three years ago this week, Simchat Torah, a day we set aside for dancing with the Torah, became the darkest day in Jewish life since the...
Three years ago, on Simchat Torah, my phone started buzzing before dawn. Not the ordinary morning noise. Messages from people in Israel, one after another, asking...
Before 7 October 2023, I opened social media without thinking much about it. A friend’s joke. Someone’s holiday photos. A bit of news before the day...
There is something about trauma that we often misunderstand. We think trauma is the terrible thing that happened. Sometimes it is. But often, the deeper psychological...
The smells and the images that I have encountered in the past three years, as I have covered 7 October and the ensuing war, are seared...
Three years ago, on 7 October, the Jewish world changed forever. We woke to news that seemed impossible to comprehend. Communities in southern Israel had been...
Israel Defense Forces reservist Major Nimrod Palmach defied orders from his commander on 7 October and drove south to save his ex-wife’s boyfriend and his children....
Three years after the Hamas attacks of 7 October, South African Jews remember where they were when they first started hearing about the massacre in Israel,...
It’s hard to believe that three years have passed since 7 October 2023. In some ways, it feels like yesterday. In others, it feels like something...
JTA – In the days following the 7 October Hamas attacks, the families of the hostages held in Gaza turned the plaza next to the Tel...
Before 7 October, Yakir Hexter had been about to begin his third year of architectural studies at Ariel University. Instead, he landed up putting on his...
Season 5 of Fauda is shocking because of how realistically it evokes 7 October. For those of us who weren’t directly affected by that horrific day...
In the months after 7 October a joke circulated in Israeli tech circles that the country had produced more wartime demo videos than product launches. It was funny in the...
People often ask me what justice looks like. At Limmud Johannesburg, an archaeologist and survivor of 7 October taught me something else. He taught me what justice sounds like. ...
Since 7 October, we’ve been offered books, talks, and documentaries about the atrocities of that day and the anguish of the hostage families. It is fair to ask whether...
Koleinu SA acknowledges the release of the Civil Commission’s report, Silenced No More, in which Hamas’s brutality on 7 October has been recognised as a previously downplayed form of torture, namely kinocide. ...
JTA – 6A sweeping new Israeli report on sexual violence committed during the Hamas-led 7 October attacks and against hostages in Gaza concludes that the crimes formed part of...
WARNING: SENSITIVE CONTENT On 7 October Hamas committed the most evil of crimes and their victims and survivors will no longer be silenced by those who deny,...
For South African olah Martine Ben Harush, every day is Yom Hazikaron. Her son, Shoam, 20, was shot by a Hamas terrorist on 7 October and later died as a result of his wounds. Ben Harush, one of the speakers...
For 57 days, Ayelet Samerano and Mishell Iluz lived in a state of unbearable uncertainty, not knowing whether their sons, Yonatan, 21, and Guy, 26, were alive, wounded, or waiting to be rescued after 7...
JTA – In the weeks after Hamas’s 7 October attack, religiously charged videos started circulating on social media. Dozens of young women posted videos of themselves...
People often ask why filmmakers are already creating movies about 7 October 2023. They ask why anyone would want to relive something so devastating. Within the Jewish...
Before I pressed play on Red Alert, an Israeli television miniseries based on the 7 October 2023 attacks, my whole body paused. Not dramatically, but in that instinctive way the body freezes when...
Recently, Reem Alsalem, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, made headlines by claiming on X that “no independent investigation found that rape...
