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Kibbutz Nahal Oz

Elai Botner (seen playing the guitar) performs and celebrates with members of Kibbutz Nahal Oz on May 21, 2026 (Courtesy)
May 30, 2026, 1:06 pm
At reopened Nahal Oz pub, Israeli musician comes full circle after October 7
Singer Elai Botner reunites on Shavuot holiday with uprooted kibbutz members he played for days after the massacre, bringing back the song he wrote with them in mind
By Jessica Steinberg
Tending the sheep at the Lahav Farm. (Keshet Ben Muvchar)
May 28, 2026, 11:48 pm
Germinated by its founder’s trauma, growing farm network cultivates healing through work
Rimon Farms Association, which harnesses nature and agriculture to help PTSD sufferers and youth at risk, is now fundraising to seed two new programs to serve Gaza border area
By Sue Surkes
Former hostage Gadi Mozes releases doves into the Kibbutz NIr Oz fields as a sign of peace during the May 22, 2026 Shavuot holiday celebrations. (Courtesy)
May 26, 2026, 5:21 pm
Gaza border kibbutzim mark first Shavuot without hostages
Nir Oz, Nahal Oz and Be’eri share images and moments of celebration from the harvest holiday festivities
By Jessica Steinberg
Musician Elai Botner, center, performs in the reopening ceremony for The Shack pub in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on May 20, 2026. (Ido Shalom/Kibbutz Nahal Oz via Facebook)
May 23, 2026, 10:02 am
Laughing and dancing again: Kibbutz Nahal Oz reopens pub abandoned after Oct. 7
The Shack, rebuilt with help from the Bazan oil firm and Dutch and German volunteers, is dedicated in memory of soldier who defended the kibbutz and was later killed in Gaza
By ToI Staff
A reinforced door is seen in the safe room of Shlomo and Hanna’le Margalit in Kibbutz Nir Oz on September 26, 2024. The Margalits stayed in this room for 12 hours during the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on southern Israel. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
February 26, 2026, 7:36 pm
Not waiting for state okay, 2 kibbutzim buy lockable, bulletproof doors for safe rooms
Armor-plated doors haven’t yet been approved by army for home use, but opting for survival over protocol, Nahal Oz and Kerem Shalom install them behind existing blast-resistant doors
By Sue Surkes
Joshua Loitu Mollel (Courtesy)
November 6, 2025, 1:21 pm
Deceased hostage returned by Hamas identified as Tanzanian national Joshua Loitu Mollel
Mollel, 21, was at Kibbutz Nahal Oz as an agricultural intern on Oct. 7; Foreign Ministry says he was adopted into Israelis’ hearts: ‘We feel like one of our own is back’
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
People march with flags calling for an end to the war near Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel close to the border with the Gaza Strip on August 10, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
November 3, 2025, 1:11 pm
Haunted by Oct. 7, some Nahal Oz locals hesitate to return home two years later
‘We are very conflicted about moving back,’ says a resident of the kibbutz who has lived in the north since the Hamas-led attack, saying he needs ’emotional closure’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
IDF troops walk through Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Gaza border, on October 20, 2023, following the October 7 Hamas onslaught. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 20, 2025, 11:57 am
Court rejects Nahal Oz residents’ petition against government push to send them home
Justices say they cannot intervene in decision to end funding for temporary housing outside war-ravaged kibbutz, but empathize with ‘real plight’ of traumatized residents
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Toronto International Film Festival CEO Cameron Bailey speaks during the 2025 Canada's Walk Of Fame Induction Gala held at Metro Toronto Convention Centre on June 14, 2025, in Toronto, Ontario. (Jeremy Chan/Getty Images/AFP)
August 15, 2025, 6:58 am
Toronto film fest to screen Oct. 7 doc initially nixed over ‘copyright concerns’
Reversing course following uproar, event organizer apologizes for poor communication, says movie on father’s rescue of his son during Hamas onslaught will premiere next week
By ToI Staff
TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey attends the 2025 Canada's Walk Of Fame Induction Gala held at Metro Toronto Convention Centre, on June 14, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario. (Jeremy Chan/Getty Images/AFP)
August 14, 2025, 3:43 pm
Toronto film fest CEO denies Oct. 7 doc censored, says he still wants it shown
Cameron Bailey says lawyers working with filmmakers to ensure film meets standards, after organizers said use of Hamas massacre footage was unauthorized, cited fear of ‘disruption’
By ToI Staff
Retired Israeli general Noam Tibon in the documentary 'The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue' (Courtesy)
August 13, 2025, 2:26 pm
Toronto film fest nixes Oct. 7 doc screening, cites Hamas ownership of massacre clips
Organizers say filmmakers didn’t legally clear footage, also cite ‘threat of disruption’; Sa’ar: This festival would have asked Hitler for approval to use Auschwitz footage
By ToI Staff and Zev Stub
Tsachi Idan. (Courtesy)
August 10, 2025, 5:32 pm
Tsachi Idan, 49: High-tech worker and Hapoel Tel Aviv superfan
Kidnapped from his home in Nahal Oz on October 7 and slain in captivity on December 4, 2023
By ToI Staff
Destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Israel-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 20, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 5, 2025, 11:34 am
Kibbutz ravaged on Oct. 7 petitions against government move pushing residents to return
Members of Nahal Oz, located just 800 meters from Gaza border, tell High Court sense of security has not been restored; state set to end subsidies for housing elsewhere
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Clutching bags of essentials, Petah Tikva residents evacuate homes shattered by Iranian missile strike, June 16, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
June 17, 2025, 12:18 pm
Oct. 7 evacuees from Kibbutz Re’im are fleeing back home amid Iranian missile fire
Back in their protected rooms, survivors of the onslaught face renewed trauma as successes in the war with Iran cause them to ask where the military was during the 2023 massacre
By Sue Surkes
Rescued hostage Ori Megidish during an interview broadcast on May 28, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot)
May 29, 2025, 5:03 pm
Sexually assaulted, nearly killed in an airstrike: Rescued hostage Ori Megidish speaks
Soldier says Hamas guard would grope her, IAF bomb hit house where she was held; she was treated in a Gaza hospital where doctors sewed her wounds without anesthetic
By ToI Staff
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