1000 days after the October 7 massacres, President Isaac Herzog and First Woman Michal Herzog hosted a meeting on the Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, the president’s spokesperson mentioned in a remark.
On the kibbutz, which is situated at the border with Gaza and Egypt, the president and primary woman listened to private tales of its citizens, “detailing the challenges they faced during the war, alongside the resilience and courageous choice to rebuild the kibbutz and return home.”
On the accumulating, the president praised the kibbutz individuals for his or her resilience in returning to the realm after the fatal assaults.
Additionally provide on the accumulating used to be the mum of Sergeant Yaron Zohar, who used to be killed protecting the kibbutz.
“The thousandth day since October 7th is not merely a marker in time,” he said, adding that “it is a reminder of Israel’s capacity to grow out of crisis and unbearable pain: to remember, and never to forget. To rise with an overwhelming will to build, to live, to act, and never to give up. This is the story of Israeli resilience.”
“Our enemy made no distinction among us. He came to destroy us all. Our answer, and our true victory, lies in action: in rebuilding and in returning to the kibbutzim. Our answer is in the laughter of children in kindergartens filling the communities of the South and North once again.”
“We will continue to plant, to build, to nurture life, and to choose hope. And so our answer is one and the same: to keep planting, building, nurturing life, and choosing hope,” he mentioned.
President Isaac Herzog at a Kibbutz Kerem Shalom tournament marking 1,000 days for the reason that October 7 assaults, July 2, 2026. (credit score: Haim Zach (GPO))First Woman Michal Herzog: ‘You give all folks hope’
The primary woman described the individuals’ go back as a supply of hope for all of Israel.
“You reflect the entire Israeli story: the greatest pain imaginable, but also the strength of spirit, the love for community, the capacity to keep nurturing life, and the choice to rise, rebuild, and believe again,” she said.
“We have walked with you since the earliest days after the tragedy, when you were evacuated to Eilat, and then to Ashalim. We were there when the tree was replanted back home in Kerem Shalom, and that is the spirit that leads you. Every time we meet you, we leave strengthened. You give all of us hope.”
On October 7, the kibbutz’s native safety squad defended its citizens when Hamas terrorists started their assault. Consistent with an IDF probe, the squad controlled to repel the assault, killing 9 terrorists, even though a number of individuals of the safety workforce and infantrymen have been killed within the combating.
