English: In Kibbutzim the public dining hall is where everyone eats together three times a day. It has become a public meeting place. On the yard behind it, many holidays are celebrated and public ceremonies like weddings and memorials take place. This is the public yard behind the dining hall in Kibbutz Zikim, shot only a few weeks before the Hamas attack on the Kibbutz and massacre in other Kibbutzim and Israeli towns near Gaza.