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KIBBUTZ BE’ERI — Autumn leaves felled by rain and wind are being raked. The grass has grown green. The mammoth printing press is working full steam. But down the bucolic pathways that …

ETGAR LEFKOVITS KIBBUTZ BE’ERI—Autumn leaves felled by rain and wind are being raked. The grass has grown green. The mammoth printing press is working full steam. But down the bucolic pathways that became killing fields on Oct. 7 when hundreds of Hamas terrorists overran this southern Israel agricultural community, the devastation is still in full view. Two months […]

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Follow Dec. 20, 2020 It was noon when we arrived at Kibbutz Be’eri’s dining hall. It felt like a journey 30 years back in time. The vast majority of the dozens of kibbutz members who came to the dining room arrived on bicycles. A few came in mobility scooters. Some even walked in barefoot. Because of coronavirus restrictions, the tables were outside the dining room, under parasols. The meal was high quality, with several meat options and a vegetarian one, all handed out freely. Nobody recor...