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Illustrative: An aerial view of the solar field at Kibbutz Ketura, which provides one-third of the daytime electricity for the city of Eilat. (Courtesy)
October 29, 2025, 12:51 pm
Kibbutz Be’eri makes first major investment since October 7 – in renewable energy
The kibbutz, hit hard by the Hamas invasion, will invest NIS 20 million, joining Kibbutz Hatzerim and the firm Giza Singer Even in a NIS 115 million purchase of Arava Power shares
By Sue Surkes
Artist Sofie Berzon Mackie at her new temporary home in Kibbutz Hatzerim, March 2025, after being evacuated from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023 and living in a Dead Sea hotel for months with her partner and three children (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 6, 2025, 7:31 am
Be’eri artist and gallery director finds clarity in temporary home, art and family
Sofie Berzon Mackie fled her kibbutz on Oct. 7 as terrorists torched the community’s art space. She spent months living in a hotel room and hopes to find answers as she plans for the future
By Jessica Steinberg
Volunteers from Taglit-Birthright Israel at Kibbutz Be'eri's temporary residential compound in Kibbutz Hatzerim, southern Israel, March 6, 2025 (Taglit-Birthright Israel)
March 12, 2025, 10:10 am
Birthright Israel volunteers bring greenery to displaced Kibbutz Be’eri’s temporary digs
Some 2,500 people from around the world are helping landscape the compound at Kibbutz Hatzerim, southern Israel, where Be’eri residents are living until their homes are rebuilt
By Sue Surkes
Volunteers involved with the flag repair project pose at Kulna, Yeruham, southern Israel, July 29, 2024. Racheli Schreiber heads Kulna's traditional arts and crafts program and is seated bottom right. Nirit Shalev-Khalifa is standing in the back row, second from right, holding a flag and one of the new storage bags. (Sarit Uziely)
August 25, 2024, 3:47 pm
Flag rescue project lets evacuated Kibbutz Be’eri open school year in customary style
With help from a Bedouin embroidery maven, displaced kibbutz continued traditional 1st grade flag parade with banners carried since 1952 in a ceremony at Dead Sea
By Sue Surkes
From left to right: Yochi Alon, Tzvi Alon and Rachel Fricker, in the David Dead Sea Resort dining hall, on Thursday July 20, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)
June 30, 2024, 12:07 pm
As their stay at the Dead Sea ends, Be’eri evacuees look to the future, with hope
In August, after 10 months in hotels, most Kibbutz Be’eri members will relocate to a temporary neighborhood in a kibbutz outside Beersheba until their homes are rebuilt
By Gavriel Fiske
The reunion of siblings Maya and Itay Regev, released from Gaza days apart, with a third sibling at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, November 30, 2023, in handout photos by the hospital. (Courtesy)
November 30, 2023, 6:13 pm
In emotional scenes, freed hostages are reunited with families and pets
Siblings Maya and Itay Regev meet after being released separately from Gaza; 13-year-old Gali Tarshansky runs to her mom; Raaya Rotem joins daughter Hila at Sheba
By ToI Staff and Amy Spiro
IAF T-6 Texan II planes fly over Tel Aviv while performing during an air show as part of Independence Day celebrations on April 26, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
April 30, 2023, 6:01 pm
Air Force training plane slightly damaged during emergency landing after malfunction
Military says it is investigating cause of technical issue that arose during routine practice flight in southern Israel
By Emanuel Fabian
Tamar Ariel during the December 27, 2012 IAF Flight School graduation ceremony, (Edi Israel/Flash90)
September 18, 2019, 4:25 pm
Airwoman killed in 2014 Nepal blizzard recognized as IDF casualty
Defense Ministry awards Tamar Ariel, Israel’s first religious female navigator, with status after new evidence shows she tried to save others
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the 178th graduation ceremony of Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert, southern Israel, June 27, 2019. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)
June 27, 2019, 10:00 pm
After US-Russia summit, Netanyahu says Israel won’t stop hitting Iran in Syria
At air force graduation, PM also warns that war will break out if Israel does not maintain control of West Bank’s Jordan Valley
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Pilots and crews who took part in the 2007 bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir al-Zor take part in a ceremony marking the planes that participated in the operation, on September 6, 2018 at the Hatzerim Air Force Base in southern Israel. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
September 7, 2018, 10:35 am
Air Force marks planes to commemorate bombing Syria reactor in 2007
At Hatzerim Air Base ceremony, stickers with the operation’s symbol placed on F-15i and F-16i jets that destroyed facility in Deir el-Zour
By ToI Staff
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman in Katzrin, May 11, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
June 29, 2018, 12:43 am
Liberman rejects criticism from ‘impatient’ Israelis urging harsher Gaza policy
Addressing new IDF pilots in ceremony in the south, defense minister says ‘serious policies can’t be a reaction to pressure from the public’
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the graduation ceremony for soldiers who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 27, 2017. (Flash90)
December 27, 2017, 6:03 pm
Netanyahu says calm in Gaza depends on the Palestinians
Statement comes days after senior defense officials reportedly told cabinet that while Hamas has no interest in renewed conflict, the situation could erupt
By ToI Staff
Troops from the IDF's Home Front Command assist in evacuations in Haifa in light of a massive fire in parts of the city on November 24, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
November 28, 2016, 7:57 pm
Blazes quelled, fire service lowers alert, sends help back home
Foreign planes and crews to leave Tuesday after ceremony, following historic rash of wildfires; north and coastal regions to remain on high alert
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on December 27, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
December 31, 2015, 6:29 pm
PM: World leaders must do more to fight Islamic State
Netanyahu says jihadists have sent shock waves across the globe, must be fought with a determination that matches the threat
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinians chant slogans against Israel during a demonstration in support of late Lebanese militant Samir Kantar (portrait) in the West Bank city of Nablus on December 21, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)
December 21, 2015, 7:46 pm
Kuntar killed by smart bombs fired from Israel, Syrian paper claims
Assad mouthpiece says rescue services recovered fragments of four IDF missiles used in Saturday night’s airstrike
By Judah Ari Gross
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