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Kibbutz Zikim

Deborah Benson-Ben Aderet in Dubai's Old Town, February 27, 2026 (courtesy)
March 2, 2026, 5:12 am
Israeli who survived 9/11 and October 7 now faces down Iranian missiles in Dubai
Chicago native Deborah Benson-Ben Aderet is stranded in the United Arab Emirates while her two daughters weather the war in their southern Israel home
By Sue Surkes
Hamas terrorists arrive by speedboat at the Zikim beach on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)
May 4, 2025, 5:59 am
In ‘massive failure,’ troops abandoned civilians at Zikim Beach on Oct. 7, IDF probe finds
17 civilians were murdered at the beach as soldiers retreated, with one soldier killed; army inquest says kibbutz civil defense squad blocked terrorists from invading community
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF vehicles drive outside the Zikim training base in southern Israel, November 16, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
April 27, 2025, 6:00 am
Commanders battled terrorists, saving 100 rookies at Zikim training base on Oct. 7
Junior officers swapped out trainees at guard posts when Hamas’s rocket fire began, exchanged fire with gunmen; only one new recruit was killed
By Emanuel Fabian
Master Sgt. (res.) Ido Keslazi who was killed by Hamas terrorists in Zikim on October 11, 2023. (IDF)
December 6, 2024, 7:55 am
Master Sgt. Ido Kaslasi, 23: A perfect mix of ‘roughness, sensitivity’
Killed battling Hamas terrorists near Zikim on October 11, 2023
By ToI Staff
Adiel Ginzberg walks from his home in Kibbutz Sa'ad to carry out guard duties on February 6, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
February 15, 2024, 11:51 am
Near Gaza, apprehensive returnees trickle back home to revive deserted communities
Traumatized yet determined, thousands are now resettling towns that still echo with the sounds of war and offer limited services for residents
By Canaan Lidor
Walter Bingham (2nd right) with his daughter Sonia, President and First Lady Herzog, and Chaiman of International March of the Living, Samuel Roseman (left). (Haim Zach/GPO)
January 26, 2024, 2:16 am
85 years later, president hosts Kindertransport survivors, draws link to October 7
Herzog hails Holocaust survivors who were smuggled out of Nazi-controlled Europe; Hamas massacre forced one of them, Mirjam Szpiro of Kibbutz Zikim, to leave home a 2nd time
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Hamas naval commandos, seen in a still image from a propaganda video released by the terror group during Israel's Operation Protective Edge, in the summer of 2014. (Screen capture)
April 1, 2017, 11:07 am
Hamas looking undersea, not just underground, for attack routes
Gaza-based terrorist group is training and manufacturing weapons for naval warfare, officer warns
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF troops conduct a training exercise near the Gaza Strip on December 6, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
December 6, 2016, 12:59 pm
Terrorists on motorcycles: IDF simulates cross-border attacks in Gaza Division drill
Hundreds of soldiers take part in exercise in southern Israel to improve preparedness, ties with civilian forces
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinian divers from the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, take part in a parade marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement’s creation on December 14, 2014 in Gaza City. (photo credit: AFP/ MAHMUD HAMS)
May 18, 2015, 1:36 pm
Fearing naval attack, Israel bars scuba suit shipment to Gaza
Security officials suspect equipment seized at Nitzana border crossing was to be used by Hamas commandos in sea-based attack, in repeat of 2014 attempt
By Adiv Sterman
Ido Ozeri, one of the owners of Archies bar and restaurant in Ashkelon, passes out shots courtesy of a bar tab from American-Israeli Yigal Rechtman on Tuesday, the first night of the ceasefire. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
August 6, 2014, 6:31 pm
L’Chaim to a ceasefire
An outing in Ashkelon on the first night of quiet, with a bar tab picked up by an American-Israeli who won’t let terror win
By Melanie Lidman
Weapons found inside a tunnel near Kibbutz Sufa on the Israel-Gaza border on July 17, 2014. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Office/Flash90)
July 29, 2014, 1:03 pm
Could Israeli soldiers, not civilians, be the target of the attack tunnels?
Intelligence source says Hamas seeks the ostensible prestige and legitimacy of abducting a soldier
By Aaron J. Klein and Mitch Ginsburg
Illustrative. Israeli Merkava tanks fire at the Gaza Strip from inside Israel on July 20, 2014. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)
July 20, 2014, 6:28 pm
13 soldiers killed overnight in fierce Gaza fighting
Anti-tank mine exploded under an APC in Shejaiya area, killing seven; three others hit inside Gaza home by missile; deadly close-quarter battles rage all night
By Mitch Ginsburg and ToI Staff
Brig. Gen. Michael Edelstein, commander of the Gaza division, entering an offensive tunnel that was discovered in October 2013. (Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel staff)
July 17, 2014, 8:25 am
Tunnel infiltration thwarted near Kibbutz Sufa
Attempt to kill and perhaps abduct Israelis foiled when 13 armed men were spotted emerging from a tunnel inside Israel near Kibbutz Sufa
By Mitch Ginsburg
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