Freed hostage Alon Ohel plays piano on ‘Eretz Nehederet’
Ohel, wearing a patch on his right eye due to untreated injuries he sustained on October 7, plainly enjoys the performance of ‘Under the Sky,’ which closes a circle
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Released hostage Alon Ohel appeared at the end of the satirical comedy show “Eretz Nehederet” for a moment of sincerity, playing the piano as the cast sang David Broza’s “Under the Sky.”
Host Eyal Kitzis noted that having Ohel with them closed the circle from eight months earlier, when singer and performer Hanan Ben Ari joined the “Eretz Nehederet” cast to sing a song for Ohel, a budding pianist who was held hostage for two years and freed earlier this month along with 19 other surviving captives.
Ohel, wearing a patch on his right eye due to untreated injuries he sustained during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack, grinned from time to time during the performance, particularly when his parents and sister joined him and the cast onstage.
“We came here, from under the sky, two, like a pair of eyes. We have time, under the sky, in the meantime, we’re still here,” read the Hebrew lyrics of the classic song.
Members of the “Eretz Nehederet” cast hugged the Ohels and embraced the freed hostage as he played.
“It was a moment the whole world had been waiting for, and not a single eye was left dry,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a post on Facebook.
לפני שמונה חודשים ביצענו כאן את השיר ״שמש״ בתפילה לשחרורו של אלון אהל – הערב סגרנו מעגל עם אלון, שחזר להיות איתנו כאן, מתחת לשמיים.
לקמפיין מימון ההמונים של אלון אהל> https://t.co/R3hENfPGBH pic.twitter.com/p8mLGO1Ffc
— ארץ נהדרת (@Eretz_Nehederet) October 29, 2025
Other viral videos of former hostages have captured their brushes with celebrity, including with Ben Ari, who sang with several of them while they were hospitalized.
Eli Sharabi, who was released in February, walked the runway at Tel Aviv Fashion Week on Sunday, where he was joined by the relatives of other freed hostages.
The Times of Israel Community.