Herzog to start 3-day tour of Gaza border communities on Oct. 7 anniversary

President Isaac Herzog will embark on a three-day tour of Gaza border communities tomorrow to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks, his office says.

He will open the tour at the Nova music festival site at 6:29 a.m., exactly one year after the Hamas attack began. He will then visit Neve Eshkol, Magen, Nirim, Ein Hashlosha, Nir Oz, Kissufim, the Re’im Base, Kibbutz Re’im, and Be’eri. He will close the day at the destroyed Sderot police station for a ceremony honoring the fallen in the ongoing war.

On October 8, Herzog will tour Alumim, Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza, Mefalsim, Yachini, Sderot, Nir Am, Erez, Netiv Ha’asara, and the Zikim beach.

The final day will see Herzog pay a visit to Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, Pri Gan, Holit, Sufa, Nir Yitzhak, Ein HaBesor, Mivtahim, Yesha, the Urim Base, and Ofakim.

“As a person, as an Israeli, as a Jew, and as the president of Israel,” says Herzog in a statement, “I will visit the sites and the representatives of the communities whose worlds were destroyed that day, and I promise — we will rebuild and rebuild everything anew — a building that cannot be complete without the hostages returning home.”