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00:02 Report by Emily Gordine
00:53 Amit Salvi | Kibbutz Be'eri Chairman 

Script:

Part of the argument that we have  
among us, between us, is:  
 
What should we do  
with the memory?  

How can we remain or [preserve]  
the memory and in what way? 

Some people say –  
some members are saying  
 
let’s destroy everything.  
 
We don't want to  
remember anything.  
 
We just, you know, a corner here  
and a corner there.  
 
Some people said we have to  
keep one, two, three houses  
 
for generation ahead.  
 
It was a very, very, very  
emotional big and still debate  
 
between the people,  
between the members,  
 
tearing us apart. Almost. 

My name is Amit.  
Amit Salvi.  
 
Born and raised in Be’eri.  
72 years of age.  
 
I have three children.  
Two daughters and one son.  

OFF / ON 
C0018.MP4 Avit walking in kibbutz Be’eri (no wreckage) 
What happened here  
on 7th of October?  
 
We [were ]conquered by terrorists  
from Gaza.//  
 
Going and moving  
house to house,  
 
killing, looting, murdering,  
 
and destroy houses,  
start setting on fire.  
 
I was managed to escape  
from my house, hiding in my bush.  

Nobody found me.  

OFF (driving around, shaking hands with people) 

The reconstruction of Be’eri  
is my goal, my mission in life.  
 
In my old life,  
you know, in my late life.  

ON (while driving in club car)  

So, this is a neighborhood  
called the Shikmim.  
 
We build here 52 houses,  
family houses. 

Every house is chosen already,  
marked by a family  

who is going to live here 

 

OFF  

((Amit driving club car))  

There is people that didn't come back  
to Be’eri yet.  
 
They didn’t see Be’eri  

two years from now.  
 
They cannot come back. 

((ATMOS))  

C0036.MP4 Walking and talking in the destroyed neighborhood  

I want people to live.  
I want family to come here.  
 
Family cannot live  
with this Auschwitz.  
 
They cannot.  
 
And most of the families wants to  
destroy everything.  

They say if I'm coming here  
with my kids,  
 
I don't want them to see what  

happened here. 

I tell you the truth,  
my sympathy muscles got dead  
 
in the 7th of October.  

I don't have any,  
I don't I don't have the..  
 
the muscle to sympathize with...  
 
with the Arab. 

This war has to be end.  
 
The hostages has to come back to Israel. 
 
 The hostages has to come  
back to Israel.  
 
We have still four people  
on the Gaza Strip,  
 
all of them dead,  
but we need the body  
 
to get the proper burial.  
 
Mani, Saar, Dror and Yossi.  
We need them back.  
 
The family needs them.  

What I'm doing now,  
I think it's, for me,  
 
it's a healing me.  
 
And I think I'm doing well,  
I’m doing good to Be’eri.