Topic: Hostage release

Jews pray for forgiveness (Selichot) at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City

ANALYSIS What were 3 stories that defined Israel in 5786?

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Former Israeli hostages, families push back on gov't coordinator's claims that protests ‘helped Hamas’

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Former hostage Yosef-Chaim Ohana arrives at his home in Kiryat Malakhi, November 30, 2025. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90

Former Israeli hostage Yosef Haim Ohana: ‘The Pinocchio song brought me light in captivity’

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Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) director David Zini with IDF chief Eyal Zamir attends a special plenum session in honor of U.S. President Donald Trump at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on October 13, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Israel's hostage negotiation team holds debriefing reviewing two years of activity

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Released hostage Eli Sharabi signs his book “Hostage

Memoir by former Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi soars to Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

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Tal Hartuv, a Holocaust educator who survived a 2010 terrorist attack that killed American tourist Kristine Luken. Oct 28, 2025, Photo: X (Photo used under section 27A of the copyright law).

interview From trauma to testimony: 2010 terror attack survivor Tal Hartuv on the pain and hope behind Israeli hostage release

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Members of the Qassam Brigades use heavy machinery to search for the bodies of Israeli hostages in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, October 27, 2025. Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90

Israel weighs harsh response after Hamas hands over remains of previously returned Israeli hostage

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Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University who won the 2025 Nobel economics prize alongside Peter Howitt of Brown University and Philippe Aghion of the College de France, INSEAD, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, speaks at a press conference on campus in Evanston, Illinois, U.S. October 13, 2025. Photo: Reuters by Jim Vondruska

Israeli-American Nobel laureate says hostage return from Gaza matters more than prize

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People and Israeli security forces pay their respects as the convoy carrying the bodies of hostages arrive at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, on October 16, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Remains of two hostages, Inbar Haiman & Muhammad al-Atrash, returned to Israel by Hamas

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Family and friends of slain hostage Israeli soldier Captain Daniel Perez attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on October 15, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

Israel warns Hamas is ‘slow-walking’ hostage bodies' return, tells US that ceasefire’s Phase 2 won’t start until all are back

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