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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

Kibbutz Re'im

Illustrative: Clutching bags of essentials, Petah Tikva residents evacuate homes shattered by Iranian missile strike, June 16, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
Oct. 7 evacuees from Kibbutz Re’im are fleeing back home amid Iranian missile fire
By Sue Surkes
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
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
Hamas terrorists are seen near the Gama Junction in southern Israel, close to Re'im and Kissufim, amid the October 7, 2023, onslaught. (South First Responders)
June 13, 2025, 10:41 am
Despite vulnerabilities, troops blocked capture of Gaza Division base on Oct. 7 — probe
Military investigation finds Re’im Base was entirely unprepared for such a scenario, but uncoordinated efforts led by base staff and other soldiers pushed back Hamas terrorists
By Emanuel Fabian
The abandoned site of the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im, where Hamas terrorists murdered and abducted numerous partygoers, October 12, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 8, 2025, 8:13 pm
IDF says Hamas terrorist who stormed Nova festival on Oct. 7 killed in airstrike last month
Arafat Dhiab infiltrated Kibbutz Re’im, attacked Nova partygoers, says IDF; COGAT posts video of public Hamas execution in Gaza City, doesn’t offer information on circumstances
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
The stories of those who hid in a dumpster and were ultimately murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel, on October 7, 2025, photographed on March 25, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
April 13, 2025, 12:18 pm
Telling victims’ stories, artist turns Nova’s killing fields into a healing memorial
Teaming up with victims’ families and KKL-JNF, Amir Chodorov is working around the clock to commemorate the lives of each of the hundreds of people slaughtered there on October 7
By Sue Surkes
Israeli soldiers drive by the Supernova rave party site, where almost 380 were killed, near Kibbutz Re'im, close to the Gaza Strip border fence, on October 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
April 11, 2025, 8:09 am
Friday Focus with Emanuel Fabian: IDF Oct. 7 probes reveal heroism amid terror
ToI’s military reporter goes deep into the investigations published recently into battles in Kibbutz Nirim, Sderot, Kibbutz Re’im, and the Nova music festival where 380 were killed
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Re'im on October 7, 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
April 10, 2025, 2:59 pm
Civil defense squad, cops battled 100 terrorists in Re’im; some were headed to Nevatim Airbase
During Oct. 7 onslaught, special forces also reached the kibbutz and eliminated remaining terrorists who had barricaded themselves in homes; several senior officers killed
By Emanuel Fabian
Partygoers flee the Nova festival near the Gaza border community of Re'im as Hamas terrorists approached on October 7, 2023. (South First Responders)
April 3, 2025, 7:01 pm
IDF okayed Nova music festival, but didn’t inform troops deployed at border, probe finds
Military made no changes to defenses, didn’t hold any assessment on massive outdoor party; 100 Hamas terrorists ended up there after making wrong turn en route to Netivot
By Emanuel Fabian
Photos of Israelis murdered at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, are posted at the site of the massacre, in southern Israel's Re'im, January 16, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 25, 2025, 8:52 am
Nova rave site has become KKL-JNF’s most visited in Israel
With an average 7,000 visitors daily, memorial near Kibbutz Re’im is proving the most accessible for Israelis and overseas visitors seeking connection to October 7
By Sue Surkes
Sgt. Maj. Alexy Budovski (Courtesy)
March 7, 2025, 1:49 pm
Sgt. Maj. Alexy Budovski, 39: Yasam officer was ‘a hero of Israel’
Killed battling the Hamas invasion of Kibbutz Re’im on October 7
By ToI Staff
Pongsathorn 'Green' Khunsri (Courtesy)
February 28, 2025, 12:01 pm
Pongsathorn Khunsri, 25: Thai worker sought to build mom a new home
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Re’im on October 7
By ToI Staff
Reut Nechushtan holds one of the imported sheet sold in her home textiles business, in the Tel Aviv storage unit she's renting after being evacuated from Kibbutz Re'im on October 8, 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
February 13, 2025, 4:25 pm
A Gaza-border kibbutznik casts an eye homeward as temporary Tel Aviv relocation drags on
Textile artist Reut Nechushtan speaks about the challenges of city life for an agricultural collective forced to flee after the horrors of Oct. 7
By Jessica Steinberg
Assaf Febvre (Courtesy)
November 18, 2024, 10:31 pm
Assaf Febvre, 23: Guitar-playing lover of extreme sports and travel
Murdered by Hamas terrorists near his home in Kibbutz Re’im on October 7
By ToI Staff
Israelis from Gaza-area communities welcomed in New York on Nov. 10, 2024, for 'Thanks4Giving' mega-mission of Project 24, an Israeli NGO founded in aftermath of Oct. 7 attacks (Mid Island JCC)
November 12, 2024, 9:21 pm
Seeking deeper ties, group brings Gaza-area security squads into American homes
‘Project 24’ initiative says thanks by flying 185 members of emergency teams and their families to Jewish communities in New York area and south Florida for some R&R and more
By Matt Lebovic
Cpt. Yotam Ben Bassat (IDF)
October 28, 2024, 10:44 pm
Cpt. Yotam Ben Bassat, 24: Elite unit commander with ‘a huge soul’
Killed battling Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Re’im on October 7
By ToI Staff
Graffiti artist Benzi Brofman painting one of his murals about the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught, this one in Germany, in an undated photo. (Courtesy Ruthe Zuntz)
October 22, 2024, 8:56 am
Artist who was at Nova on eve of massacre finds solace creating portraits of victims
Muralist Benzi Brofman’s ‘Faces of October 7th’ — graffiti depictions of those killed and taken hostage during the October 7 attack — is exhibited in Jerusalem
By Jessica Steinberg
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