Hostage Deal

Gonen was abducted from the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7, 2023, after Hamas terrorists attacked the festival and communities across southern Israel.

"I feel that I’m not alone and that there's so much love in this world, and we need to keep it with both our hands," Aviva Siegel said. "I feel very, very lucky to be alive."

Itzik Bonzel, a bereaved father placed 29th on the Likud slate by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, later apologized, saying he wrote the comment in a “storm of emotions” and “did not mean” it.

“Seeing the entire family today, three full years after the horrific disaster, standing together at their daughter's wedding, is a joy that's hard to describe," Herzog said.

Helped establish the Bring Them Home Now Hostages Forum, a global movement advocating for the release of the hostages

“I’m trying to understand how to do good rehab and help myself with this," former Gaza hostage Evyatar David told CNN on Wednesday.

Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai said, "The square became a center of solidarity, mutual responsibility, and an uncompromising demand: Bring them, all of them, home."

A proud father watches his daughter actualize her decision, made in hiding during some of the worst hours of Hamas’s massacre, to capture Nirim’s life in art on a weekly basis

“I just spoke to him the way they deserve, like the sons of b***** they are,” Buchshtab-Kirscht told Ynet.

Herzog explained that he had previously stated that he would not attend any weddings until all the hostages returned, according to reporting from Ynet.