From the Past to the Tragedy of October 7: Ofakim marks 70 years, renews itself and looks to the future

In a city portrayed over the years as poor and difficult, a tenacious and diverse community took shape - until the infiltration of the Black Saturday terrorists that threw its horizons straight into national trauma • A host of young entrepreneurs and locals seek to corroborate the city and rebuild out of the pain • “We are the generation that grew up with stigmas, and now we are rewriting our story,” recounts Ophir, one of them • Seven decades a…