How 150 Kibbutz Farmers Stopped an Entire Army

In May 1948, 150 defenders at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai faced an Egyptian force nearly 14 times their size. They lost their homes, their fields, and friends, but their six-day stand helped save the newly born State of Israel. Seventy five years later, another invasion came from Gaza. This is the story of a community built to honor Jewish resistance and forced to fight for its survival across generations.

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