A pic of the group after the event was over, before we went to do a BBQ for IDF soldiers in the area

The amazing mayor of the Eshkol regional council, Michal Uziyahu

I met her before in 2025 and posted about her here

She has an incredible story and if you get a chance to hear it go for it. I will wait for the video footage is processed to show you.

One of the soldiers said some words about what their unit did on October 7th 2023 as their unit was the first to defend the Kerem Shalom border crossing and they have done over 400 days of reserve duty since 2023

I compiled a video of the tour that I took some of the members of my group on yesterday down south near the Egyptian / Gazan border to learn about the resilience of the Eshkol community 1018 days after the October 7th massacre

Thanks a lot to Shlomo Buzaglo for the interest to bring my group there and for arranging things on their side, such as inviting Ilan Isaacson, the Security Chief for the Eshkol Regional Council, as well as Michal Uziyahu, the mayor of Eshkol and Hila from the Eshkol Resilience Center (note they don't call it trauma on purpose)

We then did a BBQ for Givati 630 near the Egyptian border thanks to Jonathan Bloom from Grills of Hope for making the amazing food.

Watch it here on YouTube if you prefer

Just some fun at the end of the tour on the way back from the south after we did a BBQ for IDF soldiers last night

Honored to have received a certificate of appreciation from the 630th Battalion of IDF's Givati Brigade for the BBQ we did for them last night near the Egyptian / Gazan border