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Herzogs visit Kibbutz Kerem Shalom on 1,000th day since Oct. 7 attacks

From Jerusalem Post · () English

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  • President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog visited Kibbutz Kerem Shalom to mark 1,000 days since the October 7 attacks.
  • The couple listened to residents' stories of resilience and rebuilding, with the president emphasizing hope and the will to live.
  • Herzog highlighted Israeli resilience, stating the answer to the enemy's attempt to destroy them is to rebuild and return to communities.

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog marked 1,000 days since the October 7 attacks with a visit to Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, a community on the border with Gaza and Egypt. The presidential couple engaged with residents, hearing personal accounts of their experiences during the war and their determination to rebuild.

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.

— President Isaac HerzogDuring a gathering at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom marking 1,000 days since the October 7 attacks.

Herzog praised the kibbutz members for their resilience in returning to the area after the attacks. He spoke of Israel's capacity to grow from crisis and pain, emphasizing the importance of remembrance and an overwhelming will to build, live, and act. "Our answer, and our true victory, lies in action: in rebuilding and in returning to the kibbutzim," Herzog stated, adding that the answer is also in the sound of children's laughter returning to southern communities.

The thousandth day since October 7th is not merely a marker in time. 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.

— President Isaac HerzogSpeaking at the Kibbutz Kerem Shalom event.

First Lady Michal Herzog described the residents' return as a source of hope for all of Israel. She noted their strength, love for community, and ability to nurture life and believe again. She recalled their journey since the tragedy, from evacuation to replanting a tree back home, stating that the residents' spirit strengthens everyone they meet. The kibbutz's local security squad had previously repelled a Hamas attack on October 7.

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.

— President Isaac HerzogAddressing the gathering at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom.
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