Avivim Winery was hit by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile/courtesy of the photographers
We are the Cohen-Kalf family, residents of Kibbutz Sde Nehemiah for over a decade, 4 people, a couple + 2 teenagers (18 and 14 years old).
We did not leave the kibbutz during the war, and we do not plan to leave the north.
Living in the shadow of the war, in a kibbutz that lacks about 500 meters from other settlements that were evacuated - created an impossible reality for us, and a feeling of neglect and throwing responsibility from all the parties.
In the first month of the war, the council (Upper Galilee) sent messages, begging all the residents - to leave the area.
She asked everyone, even from settlements that are not adjacent to a fence - indeed, even in our kibbutz most of the residents left, about 80% left and looked for a place that would accept them on their own, because the state did not define us as evacuees.
These people spent a lot of money, until they gave up and returned to the kibbutz little by little, and according to only half of them they have not yet returned.
And we, those who remained in the kibbutz, those whom the state did not evacuate, live in the shadow of the war.
To be with and feel without.
Miki Cohen, Sde Nehemiah/courtesy of those photographed
You hear explosions, every day all day, to such an extent that the windows and doors in the house shake every time, and there is no difference between day and night.
The children live in constant fear, every explosion surprises and scares them anew.
You can't get used to it.
The school was closed, no classes.
The teachers, some are evacuees and some are with their families or babies at home and are also having a hard time coping with it.
The council transfers responsibility to the kibbutz in every sense of the word.
At a parents' meeting with the council, they claimed that they were giving money to a kibbutz that would operate a school in the shelter - which could accommodate about 12 students.
In other words, they said "deal with it alone".
And did the children learn?
Definately not.
They went for an hour or two a day, combining children from different classes and different learning levels, and we realized that it does not benefit anyone, on the contrary, it is scary that the children are not at home in case something happens.
After three months, the school opened its doors, for 4 hours a day, 3-4 times a week.
And here too, because there are not enough teachers and not enough students, everyone studies with everyone else.
Of course there is no benefit here.
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Matriculation - less.
Our Gefen is in the twelfth grade, and she does not study for her high school diploma like the rest of the students in the country, because there are no teachers, there are no organized classes, and this is how the results look.
Go fight with the school principal, who is also poor without answers.
Shopping - Kiryat Shmona is the main city in the area where all the businesses are.
Want a meat shop?
It's open for a few hours, oh, and that's only after two months of war.
Until then, go to another city to look.
And what about a writer?
The supermarket is only open until 16:00, unless there are alerts and road closures (which happens several times a week).
And there is really no supply.
Reduce shelves, only about 20% of the refrigerators are full.
There are only three shelves with vegetables, which look like they fell to the floor at the end of a day at the market.
There is nothing to talk about package deliveries.
I sometimes drive 40 minutes to pick up packages, because there are courier companies who say that it is dangerous here and they are not allowed to cross the Mahani intersection.
Link factory in Kibbutz Sde Nehemiah/courtesy of the Kibbutz
Did I already say that people drive in fear on the roads here?
We learned to drive in a zigzag pattern so that no anti-aircraft fire would be fired at us, and with the windows open we would hear the falls, because we have falls, and only then might there be an alarm. Is it
possible to function like this? No. And all this because we are not evacuated, but the area is evacuated.
Our council, She asked us all to flee, but there is no help - precisely at a time like this. But they charge Aruna and tax payments on time. Our state has evacuated the settlements around, and left us, not a month, for 5 months, and there is no horizon or help. We all hope and believe that the state and the council will do something, but Looks like it's off track. Sad.
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