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Kibbutz Yad Mordechai

Staff Sgt. Itay Eliyahu Martsiano (IDF)
October 30, 2024, 9:48 pm
Staff Sgt. Itay Martsiano, 20: Soccer player and beloved little brother
Killed battling Hamas terrorists near the entrance to Kibbutz Yad Mordechai on October 7
By ToI Staff
Kibbutz Yad Mordechai member Limor Livne put together 'And the Sun Did Not Stand Still,' an exhibit of Israeli artworks that opened October 8, 2024, to help bring her community and the Gaza envelope back to life (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
October 15, 2024, 6:22 pm
With October 8 art exhibit, a Gaza border kibbutz bravely looks to the day after
Inspired by politician Benny Gantz’s temporary stay in Yad Mordechai, a resident sets up a former carpentry shop to host works of resilience amid aftermath of Hamas attack
By Jessica Steinberg
Roni Karlinsky with his beehives at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, near the Gaza border, southern Israel, September 1, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
October 2, 2024, 9:19 am
Despite the war, no shortage of honey for Jewish New Year
Located on a kibbutz near Gaza border, the Yad Mordechai factory, Israel’s biggest honey producer, reopened a month after the Hamas infiltration and massacre on October 7
By Sue Surkes
Rockets from Gaza seen from Kibbutz Yad Mordechai's historic battlefield on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
September 25, 2024, 5:13 pm
Aiming for resurrection and hope, southern kibbutz plans Oct. 7 memorial for Simhat Torah
Organizers of ceremony see the Gaza border community of Yad Mordechai as a symbol ‘that represents the might of the people’
By Jessica Steinberg
Family and friends attend the funeral service of Yagev Buchshtab at the Cemetery in Kibbutz Nirim, on August 21, 2024, Yagev Buchshtab was kidnapped to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, his body was recently brought back to Israel in an Israeli military operation. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 21, 2024, 8:15 pm
Hostage families, Gaza border towns join growing boycott of Oct. 7 state memorial
Residents of kibbutzim targeted by Hamas, Hostages and Missing Families Forum all blast event as politicized; Gantz tells Netanyahu that ceremony is ‘not yours, it’s theirs’
By ToI Staff
Staff Sgt. Ilay Gamzo who was killed near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
January 29, 2024, 9:14 pm
Staff Sgt. Ilay Gamzo, 20: Lover of soccer who was all smiles
Killed battling Hamas terrorists near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai on October 7
By ToI Staff
Magen David Adom paramedics respond to a fatal car crash on Route 34 between Kibbutz Yad Mordechai and Kibbutz Erez in which 5 people were injured and one was killed, on January 14, 2024 (Magen David Adom).
January 14, 2024, 11:36 am
Two killed, teen seriously hurt in separate southern Israel crashes
Four others hospitalized after car slams into parked vehicle on side of Route 34; 25-year-old killed after colliding with guardrail on Route 6
By ToI Staff
The scene of a road fatality following a crash on Highway 4 on August 12, 2022. (Magen David Adom)
August 12, 2022, 6:54 am
2 men killed crossing highway to help motorists after crash; 13 die in three days
Middle aged men struck by passing cars on Highway 4 near Yad Mordechai, marking latest road deaths during particularly bloody period on Israeli roads
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian rioter uses a slingshot to hurl stones at Israeli forces near the fence along the border with Israel in the eastern Gaza Strip on August 16, 2019. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
August 16, 2019, 6:50 pm
Thousands of Palestinians protest on Gaza border
Several hundred rioters throw stones and explosive devices at IDF soldiers, who respond with tear gas and occasional live fire; 16 reported wounded
By ToI Staff
Pvt. Livka Shefer, whose remains were located by the Israeli military nearly 70 years after she was killed in the 1948 War of Independence. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 6, 2018, 8:27 pm
70 years on, IDF finds remains of female fighter killed in Independence War
Pvt. Livka Shefer was one of three soldiers killed in battle for Kibbutz Yad Mordechai whose bodies were never recovered
By Judah Ari Gross
President Reuven Rivlin at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 16, 2015. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 16, 2015, 10:41 pm
In Holocaust Day comments, Rivlin invokes Palestinian victims in Yarmouk
At closing Remembrance Day ceremony, president says Israel must not turn a blind eye to humanity’s horrors
By Jonathan Beck and Marissa Newman
The Israeli border fence with Gaza (David Buimovitch/Flash90)
December 26, 2014, 1:42 pm
IDF shoots Palestinian crossing Gaza border fence
Infiltrator lightly-moderately hurt after he refuses to stop; second man escapes back into Strip
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative photo of an Israeli tank along the Gaza border (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash 90)
December 26, 2014, 12:11 pm
False alarms sound near Gaza Strip
Warnings heard in Yad Mordechai, Netiv Ha’asara, but IDF says siren was in response to gunfire within Gaza
By Lazar Berman
Raising queen bees (Courtesy Black Bear Honey/photo credit: Stephen Epstein)
September 14, 2012, 2:10 pm
Artisanal honey is the bee’s knees
Israeli apiarists sweat to sell the sweet stuff. It’s a labor of love
By Jessica Steinberg
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert grins in the courtroom during his corruption trial. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Flash90)
July 10, 2012, 3:17 pm
Olmert headlines offer short-term hype
Ex-PM faces dramatic verdict, Gaza terrorists introduce new tactics, settlement report gets buried and the suckers fall off the front page
By Ron Friedman
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