Up until Saturday this was a working dairy farm right here.

It's the best dairy farm in Israel.

The climate here is amazing, it's very dry even it's a hot but it's very dry and it's

good for the cow and actually this area is the best dairy farm else in the world.

Hey listeners, it's Mishi.

So as you know during these incredibly difficult days we're trying to bring you voices we're

hearing among and around us.

These aren't stories, they're just quick conversations or postcards really.

The try to capture slivers of life right now.

We're obviously not the only ones during this kind of work.

Go to our website israelstory.org for a list of other projects collecting wartime stories

and testimonies.

In any event yesterday we heard Moshadeyan's eerily relevant 1956 eulogy for Roirot

Bill of Nahalos and today we're just 15 kilometers south of Nahalos in Kibbutz Kisufim

where we spent the day with dairy farmers busy evacuating the local cows.

Here's our producer, Mitch Gidsberg.

Okay we're here in Kibbutz Kisufim alongside the bombed out dairy shed outside the fence

just a few yards from us, are a few motorcycles that were used by the Hamas terrorists who

arrived here and with somebody who's come down to land the helping hand very far away

from where he lives and very near the Kaza border.

Hi my name is Ophiot Amir and from Moshav Nahalal.

I usually walk out of the country and establish and set up a agriculture project in Ghana, Africa

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