[Podcast] What Oct 7 Survivors Understand That Outsiders Don't

Why Oct 7 survivors move back to the Gaza border For our special October 7 episode, episode Noam Weissman visits the Tkuma car graveyard, Kibbutz Be’eri, and Netiv Ha’Asara, spending several weeks in the Gaza envelope talking with the people who live there about their memories of the day, and how they’ve rebuilt their lives. Through conversations with survivors and community members, this episode explores grief, resilience, Zionism, Jewish memory, and the responsibility to tell the stories of those who were lost, and of those determined to carry on. October 7: The day that didn't end Three years after October 7, Jewish life looks totally different. Some Jews became more visibly Jewish. Others started tucking their Magen David away. Israel and the Diaspora grew closer, even as arguments over Israel grew sharper. And questions that once felt political or distant became intensely personal: what it means to be a Zionist, what it means to belong to the Jewish people, and what that belonging asks of us. Some of these shifts look set to shape Jewish life for decades. See what changed in the full post. https://www.instagram.com/p/DeKSHP2iHDu/?stkn=MWRnd253ODBkcDE4MA%3D%3D&utm_source=unpkd-news-2026-10-07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Why+go+back+&utm_campaign=This+Week+Unpacked&img_index=3