KIBBUTZ BE’ERI, Israel – Kibbutz Be’eri was one of the hardest-hit locations in the Hamas attacks near Gaza on October 7th. It also personally touched the life of Michele Bachmann, former congresswoman and current dean of the Regent University School of Government. She was once a resident of the kibbutz.
CBN News accompanied Bachmann as she recently surveyed the site of horrendous massacres, kidnappings and destruction, and we talked to those who survived the mayhem.
As Hamas invaded Kibbutz Be’eri, Lotan Pinyah, a resident, watched the attack unfold when he visited the kibbutz website and a WhatsApp group that October morning.
“People started to say, to write, ‘There are terrorists inside the kibbutz,'” Pinyan related. He added, “And you start to see on the kibbutz map that they’re here, here, here, here, here – they’re spread all over the kibbutz.”
A short time after, Pinyan learned terrorists slaughtered his mother and father-in-law, and he would see the death and destruction all over the neighborhood.
“We have 90 murders,” he said, and within in the kibbutz, “289 houses are either burned or severel’ery damaged.”
All of this weighed on former Congresswoman Bachmann because she had lived here in 1974.
“I came here the day after I graduated
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