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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Tekuma Directorate

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
View of a graffiti in the southern Israeli city of Ofakim, December 4, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 25, 2024, 7:55 pm
Ofakim gets NIS 229m after Oct. 7 massacre, but kept off national recovery plan
Funds prompt both gratitude and disappointment in a town ravaged by terrorists but excluded from compensation due to distance rules
By Canaan Lidor
Ido Vered-Bar hangs up family photos at the home of the murdered parents of his wife Noya, right, in Kibbutz Be'eri, on July 10, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
July 15, 2024, 4:41 pm
In ravaged kibbutzim near Gaza, locals embrace hope despite a ‘series of failures’
Authorities’ blind spots before, during and since Oct. 7 are complicating rehabilitation efforts, but many evacuated residents remain determined to come back to Be’eri and Kfar Aza
By Canaan Lidor
From left to right: Yochi Alon, Tzvi Alon and Rachel Fricker, in the David Dead Sea Resort dining hall, on Thursday July 20, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)
June 30, 2024, 12:07 pm
As their stay at the Dead Sea ends, Be’eri evacuees look to the future, with hope
In August, after 10 months in hotels, most Kibbutz Be’eri members will relocate to a temporary neighborhood in a kibbutz outside Beersheba until their homes are rebuilt
By Gavriel Fiske
Volunteers and coordinators at Social Delivery's warehouse in Beit Shemesh help to unpack and sort surplus commercial goods collected from businesses and organizations. (Courtesy)
June 15, 2024, 12:45 pm
Modern Robin Hood with a social justice mandate helps returnees on path of renewal
During war, Social Delivery collects unwanted surplus from retailers and offices of tech firms and disperses the goods ranging from clothes to furniture to Gaza border communities
By Sharon Wrobel
A demolition crew tears down a communal building in Kibbutz Be'eri on June 4, 2024. (Tekuma Authority)
June 5, 2024, 10:48 am
Bulldozers raze communal structures in Kibbutz Be’eri damaged in October 7 attack
Ruins of art gallery, sewing workshop, old dining hall among those cleared out in advance of reconstruction, after earlier phase dealt with damaged private homes
By ToI Staff
A demolished home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. (Home Front Command)
April 17, 2024, 10:47 pm
Government approves framework for NIS 19 billion plan to rehabilitate area near Gaza
5-year roadmap, which aims to upgrade and restore area affected by Oct. 7 onslaught, is ‘a historic’ move toward prosperity, says project head
By Canaan Lidor
Residential homes, severely damaged during Hamas's October 7 onslaught on southern Israel, line a street in the Olives Neighborhood of Kibbutz Be'eri on January 1, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
April 17, 2024, 12:10 pm
Nature org urges opposition to ‘draconian’ proposals for rebuilding Gaza border area
Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel holds emergency meeting to warn that new committees proposed in draft law memorandum will empower government, at expense of residents
By Sue Surkes
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