On August 23, 2024, Mika Majzner and Elad Dubnov got married in Be’eri, the first wedding in the kibbutz synagogue since the October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities that ravaged the community and the rest of the Gaza border region. The ceremony marked the couple’s second wedding. The couple had gotten married nearly two years earlier on a farm near Be’eri, where Mika was born and raised before moving to Tal Shahar in central Israel. The wedding was conducted by a member of Harabanut Hahilonit, literally “the secular rabbinate,” an organization that serves the secular public by performing Jewish ceremonies —...