From Safe Room to Starting Over: An Oct. 7th Family Returns Home: Zoomcast

Oct. 7th survivor Deborah Benson Ben-Aderet shares her family’s harrowing journey from sheltering in a safe room on Kibbutz Zikim to rebuilding life together - after nearly two years apart.

This week on Life on the Border, we hear Deborah Benson-Ben Aderet’s extraordinary story of survival, separation, and resilience. On Oct. 7th, she and her family endured hours of terror in their Kibbutz Zikim safe room during Hamas’s onslaught. What followed was weeks of displacement and a difficult decision that split the family between Israel and Chicago for nearly two years. Now back home on the border, Deborah shares what it means to reclaim life in the shadow of war.
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