Black Sabbath
Peloni: Maddy-Weitzman reveals a very detailed telling of the unfolding tragedy of October 7 in just one of the communities targeted that day. It offers an important understanding of the many layers of tragedy which took place that day as the residents, defenders made their provided a credible defense against the oncoming slaughter that day.
The defenders of Kibbutz Alumim fought off Palestinian terror squads on Oct. 7 and saved their homes and families
An armed resident walks amid the ashes of a heavily damaged building in kibbutz Alumim, following the October 7 attack by Hamas fighters, in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip on October 18, 2023 Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images
The evening of Oct. 6 was especially festive at Kibbutz Alumim, one of the two religiously observant kibbutzim among the communities that dot the Gaza envelope, the part of Israel’s fertile northwestern Negev region adjacent to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Most of Alumim’s 500 residents and their guests had gathered at the kibbutz’s synagogue to celebrate with song and dance the start of the Simchat Torah holiday, one of the two most joyous days on the Jewish calendar. Many of them didn’t finally retire until after midnight.

















