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How—and Where—to Build an Oct. 7 Memorial
Hillel Kuttler
January 29, 2025

…In a country speckled by plaques, stones, gardens, overlooks, hiking paths, rooms, buildings, and entire communities honoring lives taken by terrorism and war, Israel is tackling perhaps its most gargantuan, sorrowful task: memorializing the calamity of Hamas’ invasion and its murder of 1,200 people. The mission is vast, encompassing not only how to mark the trauma but where to do so. That could mean a national museum-memorial or a series of sites linked thematically throughout the Eshkol regional council (akin to an American county), where Hamas infiltrated more than 20 communities—or a combination of these approaches. The undertaking is complex, those involved explained, because the period beginning Oct. 7 hasn’t concluded, given that the wars instigated by Hamas near the Gaza Strip and by Hezbollah in northern Israel are ongoing…READ MORE