How a Moms WhatsApp Group In Kibbutz Be'eri Helped Save Lives – Kveller

For a lot of people, their local moms group is a lifesaver — a way to get sleep training advice, find an emergency car seat, a vetted babysitter or just the words of encouragement that you need in rough moment of parenthood. But when it came to Kibbutz Be’eri’s moms group on WhatApp on October 7, the term “lifesaver” became quite literal. In a story for Israel’s Kann News, four of the moms from the hard-hit kibbutz talked about how their group went from “the happiest thing in the kibbutz” to a place where mothers shared their horror and real life updates of what has become the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Over 100 members of Kibbutz Be’eri were killed on October 7. Many of its residents were also taken hostage, including Vivian Silver, a founding member of the group Women Wage Peace. It took hours for IDF soldiers to recover the kibbutz, which was founded in 1946, from Hamas, as they threw grenades and lit houses on fire in attempts to get the residents out of their safe rooms. Through it all, the moms’ group text kept bearing witness to the horrors unfolding in each of their
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