Tag: Hostages
Body of Thai citizen Sudthisak Rinthalak returned to Israel
Israeli authorities on Thursday morning confirmed that the remains recovered from the Gaza Strip the previous evening belong to murdered Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, whose body had been held captive in Gaza since the...
Ex-hostage twins attend first Maccabi Tel Aviv game since release
Gal and Ziv Berman, who endured 772 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, arrived on Sunday night at Bloomfield Stadium for a soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. and Beitar Jerusalem F.C., the...
Hadar Goldin buried in Israel, more than 4,000 days after he fell in 2014...
Israel Defense Forces Lt. Hadar Goldin was laid to rest at the military cemetery in the central city of Kfar Saba on Tuesday, more than 4,000 days after he was killed during “Operation Protective...
Yoel Levy to run NYC marathon in Batman costume for Bibas family, Holocaust survivors
Marathoner Yoel Levy, known as “the Jewish fitness coach” on social media, who is based in Manchester, England, plans to lace up his running sneakers and don his Batman costume once again for the New...
Netanyahu orders ‘forceful strikes’ in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “forceful strikes” in Gaza on Tuesday after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire-for-hostages agreement.
“Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has directed the military to immediately carry out forceful...
Freed hostages open Fashion Week in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Fashion Week commenced on Sunday night after a two-year hiatus due to the war, with several captivity survivors and their family members being the first to stride down the runway.
Dani Miran, father...
The hostages found faith in the dark, reigniting global Jewish pride
Before Oct. 7, 2023, Israel was deeply divided. Streets filled with protests, families were fractured over politics, and the sense of shared destiny, the glue that once bound the Jewish people, felt as if...
For hostage families, there’s no such thing as closure
My daughter Alisa was murdered in a Palestinian Islamic Jihad-Iranian sponsored terrorist attack in Gaza on April 9, 1995. She was 20 years old, a college student studying at Nishmat in Jerusalem on a...
Tel Aviv University economist among 3 Nobel Prize laureates
Joel Mokyr, a Tel Aviv University scientist and dual citizen of Israel and the United States, on Monday won the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Philippe Aghion of the College de...
Netanyahu: Hamas must disarm or ‘all hell breaks loose’
Hamas terrorists must give up their weapons, or “all hell breaks loose,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with CBS on Tuesday.
Netanyahu spoke in response to a question on whether Israel’s two-year war...