Residents of Devastated Kibbutz Near Gaza, Now Refugees in Israel, Support Each Other, Contemplate Future
08-16-2024
KIBBUTZ NIRIM, Israel – More than 400 residents of Kibbutz Nirim, a community devastated by the Hamas terror attack on October 7th, are citizens without a permanent home.
They're recovering together from several locations of temporary housing in the city of Beersheva, meeting with each other, sharing their lives, and sometimes eating with one another.
As longtime kibbutz resident Adele Raemer put it in her interview with CBN News, "Every single family here, every single person here, has their own October 7th story."
For each person, each family, they must decide if and when they return to Kibbutz Nirim, although that isn't possible now.
To watch our interview with Adele Raemer, click on the video below.
About The Author
Julie
Stahl
Julie Stahl is a correspondent for CBN News in the Middle East. A Hebrew speaker, she has been covering news in Israel fulltime for more than 20 years. Julie’s life as a journalist has been intertwined with CBN – first as a graduate student in Journalism; then as a journalist with Middle East Television (METV) when it was owned by CBN from 1989-91; and now with the Middle East Bureau of CBN News in Jerusalem since 2009. As a correspondent for CBN News, Julie has covered Israel’s wars with Gaza, rocket attacks on Israeli communities, stories on the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and
