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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Tekuma Directorate

Israeli soldiers walking next to buildings destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, November 21, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 2, 2025, 4:53 pm
Kibbutz Nir Oz and state agree on $95 million budget to rebuild devastated community
Plan, expected to be approved by members’ assembly in coming days, will include building of new neighborhood for first returnees to the community worst-hit on Oct. 7
By Sue Surkes
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi addresses the Knesset plenum, March 31, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov / Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
April 1, 2025, 10:14 am
In blitz, Knesset passes laws to rebuild the south, revoke benefits for terrorists
Lawmakers end winter parliamentary session with flurry of votes ahead of month-long recess, including forming an anti-poverty authority, banning teachers with Palestinian degrees
By Sam Sokol
Charred objects are scattered on the ground, in Moshav Netiv Ha'asara in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on November 17, 2023, in the aftermath of Hamas's October 7 terror onslaught. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
March 24, 2025, 5:45 pm
Deal on funds for Ofakim, Netivot paves way for approval of post-Oct. 7 revival law
NIS 5 billion out of NIS 19 billion in state funds to rehabilitate, develop, communities within 7 kilometers of Gaza was frozen, as towns farther away lobbied for funds
By Sue Surkes and Stuart Winer
Magen David Adom paramedic and paramedic course instructor Amit Mann was murdered by Hamas terrorists who stormed the clinic in Kibbutz Be'eri where she was treating the wounded on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy of MDA)
March 11, 2025, 7:54 pm
Kibbutz Be’eri dental clinic, where 5 people were murdered on Oct. 7, is demolished
Bereaved relatives hold ceremony at site to honor them; wife of security team member calls on government to establish commission of inquiry into massacre
By Sue Surkes
A women standing beside a memorial monument in the Mishor Hagefen neighborhood of Ofakim, southern Israel, that was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, photographed on September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 25, 2025, 9:09 am
State comptroller urges PM to finish review of southern communities eligible for aid
Interim report notes difficulties faced by moshavim and cities of Ofakim and Netivot, which suffered on October 7 but are outside of area earmarked for support
By Sue Surkes
A newly renovated library at the Sdot Negev Regional Council in southern Israel. (Tekuma Directorate)
February 17, 2025, 6:43 am
Rebuilding, renewing: Directorate details billions in funds for Gaza border communities
Report marking 500 days since Hamas onslaught says residents of Kerem Shalom, Re’im, likely to go home by end of March, Nirim by end of April, Nahal Oz by end of July
By Sue Surkes
President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal pay their respects on October 9, 2024 at a memorial to five security team members who fell fighting Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, at Moshav Mivtachim, close to the Gaza border in southern Israel. (Maayan Toaf / GPO)
February 12, 2025, 7:02 am
Just 138 yards too far from the Gaza border, towns are denied post-Oct. 7 state support
As their immediate neighbors receive rehabilitation funds from the national Tekuma Directorate, four communities are suffering the same effects from the war, without the support
By Sue Surkes
A picture shows the inside of a destroyed house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the border with the Gaza Strip on September 12, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
November 19, 2024, 7:36 am
Government directorate budgets NIS 180 million to rebuild devastated Kfar Aza
Plan led by kibbutz members would rehabilitate 360 residential buildings, 40 public ones, and infrastructure damaged during Hamas rampage last year
By Sue Surkes
Temporary housing built for members of Kibbutz Be'eri in Kibbutz Hatzerim, southern Israel, October 8, 2024. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
October 30, 2024, 10:24 am
Gaza border-area development on hold as treasury freezes NIS 5 billion
Release of funds contingent on government deciding whether they will also be shared by cities beyond traditionally recognized southern frontline
By Sue Surkes
Temporary homes in Omer, near Beersheba, in southern Israel, built for evacuees from Kibbutz Kissufim, near the Gaza border. (Tekuma Authority)
October 27, 2024, 8:20 pm
Post-Oct. 7 return home of 3 Gaza border towns further delayed by still-ongoing war
Residents of Sufa, Nir Yitzhak and Netiv Ha’asara are now scheduled to return at the end of the year; state will continue funding temporary accommodation
By Sue Surkes
An undated picture of temporary housing being built at Kibbutz Hatzerim in southern Israel for residents of Kibbutz Be'eri. (Tekuma Authority)
October 11, 2024, 5:17 am
Tekuma Administration reports spending NIS 6.4b on Gaza border reconstruction this year
Authority waiting for government to release over NIS 2 billion of this sum as local mayors appeal to Finance Ministry and PM’s office, fearing program cuts in 2025 budget
By Sue Surkes
Noam Mash sits with daughter Dar and the family dog, Belle, on the porch of their temporary home on Kibbutz Re'im, near the Gaza border, September 1, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
September 12, 2024, 5:38 am
Members of Gaza border’s Kibbutz Re’im are trickling home; most still don’t feel safe
Some 80 Hamas terrorists invaded the kibbutz on Oct. 7, murdering 7 and kidnapping 4. Among those who have returned are the family of a murdered teen, who simply say it is ‘home’
By Sue Surkes
Children in their classroom in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on their first day back since the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 people on the Israeli side of the Gaza border, March 3, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
August 27, 2024, 2:22 pm
Up to NIS 30,000 offered to teachers, psychologists who move to Gaza border towns
Therapists, counselors, kindergarten teachers, instructors in some subjects are eligible for the grants of up to $8,130, while those already in region can get up to NIS 8,000
By Sue Surkes
Lior Golan and Oriana ben Aba Golan, evacuees from Kibbutz Nir Am near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, return to their home 10 months after the October 7 Hamas massacre. August 15, 2024. (Dor Pazuelo-FLASH90)
August 15, 2024, 8:31 pm
Thousands of residents return to homes near Gaza as state ends hotel funding for some
Around 3,700 Israelis go back to towns they left on October 7; residents of 10 communities badly damaged in Hamas attack have housing for at least another year
By Canaan Lidor
Elders and mourners attend the funeral of Gevara Ebraheem, 11, killed in a Hezbollah strike from Lebanon two days earlier, in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan on July 29, 2024. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)
July 29, 2024, 1:15 pm
Daily Briefing Jul 29: Day 297 – Golan’s Druze demand reprisal for 12 killed by Hezbollah
Political reporter Tal Schneider on yesterday’s security cabinet meeting, hostage negotiations and Knesset’s recess; reporter Canaan Lidor reports from a mourning Majdal Shams
By ToI Staff
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