American–Israeli Blogger and Educator, Adele is an American born Israeli who has lived in Kibbutz Nirim, on the border with the Gaza Strip, for most of her adult life.
She has experienced thousands of rocket and mortar attacks over the years and in 2014 one exploded near her bedroom, riddling the walls with shrapnel while she was in the house. Nothing, though, prepared her for what happened on October 7th.
Adele has given hundreds of interviews for international and local media and been on numerous speaking tours to share her experiences about what life on the border is really like. In this capacity she has travelled to Switzerland, Germany and been sent cross-country throughout the US at the request of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the JNF, and Jewish Colorado, among others.
She is currently part of a prestigious team of citizen advocates trained in Public Diplomacy by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the National Digital Centre in Sderot.
Adele is a survivor of the Oct 7th 2023 massacres, when she had to hunker down for hours in her safe room on Kibbutz Nirim to hide from terrorists literally at her front door. She lost more people that she knew personally than she can even count. Together with her community she was evacuated, refugees in their own land, who still cannot return home because “home” is still a closed war zone.
She is an important witness who makes sure to tell her story and those of her community, everywhere she can, with the aim of raising awareness regarding the massacres, making sure that the innocent hostages still being held in Gazan terror tunnels are not forgotten, and emphasising the importance of the return of the communities to the area.
