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Las Vegas veteran comic Butch Bradley headlined the six-city Comedy for Kobe tour of Israel.

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Benefit raises $25,000; for attendees, the performances also show how to be funny and creative through hard times in Jewish history

Tami Varon needed a night out to laugh. With two of her sons just back from fighting Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, she joined some 400 others at a comedy show of visiting U.S. comics in Israel to try to forget about the war for a while. For Varon and the show's organisers, comedy can help to heal those who remain deeply traumatised by the Oct. 7 attack when Hamas killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel, and triggered the war in Gaza.

Steadily, some form of normality has returned in Israel; now, comedy shows are sold out as rocket attacks from Gaza have started to subside.

Comedy shows are now sold out as rocket attacks from Gaza have stared to subside.

Tami Varon needed a night out to laugh. With two of her sons just back from fighting Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, she joined some 400 others at a comedy show of visiting U.S. comics in Israel to try to forget about the war for a while.

If we have to display the butchery we have suffered in order to win the war for public opinion, then we will. 

Yes, even at this devastating time, we can take steps to help us withstand the pain and emerge stronger and more united

Most of the women have lost young children or young husbands. One of the goals of the Koby Mandell Foundation is to teach these women to use their grief to build and create.