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Saturday, March 29, 2025
’60 Minutes’ to air Yarden Bibas’s first interview on Sunday evening
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CBS’s “60 Minutes” is set to air Yarden Bibas’s first media interview since he was freed by Hamas last month, the Ynet news site reports.
The interview will be broadcast on Sunday evening.
Released hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel, and Tal Shoham, are also interviewed.
The parents of hostages Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Evyatar David, who were held with Shoham and Omer Wenkert, and forced to watch their release, also speak to CBS for the report.
According to assessments by Israeli officials, Yarden’s wife Shiri was “brutally” murdered along with her two boys, Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, nine months, in November 2023. The three were buried last month.
Bibas has since joined protests calling for a deal to free the remaining hostages — he has said he is “petrified” for his friends left in Gaza, and that news of the resumption of fighting in the Strip has triggered flashbacks to his captivity.
The bereaved husband and father has also joined calls demanding the formation of a state commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding October 7.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the establishment of a state commission of inquiry, the body that enjoys the broadest powers under Israeli law, to investigate the failures that enabled the deadly Hamas attack, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, claiming that all investigations must wait until the fighting in Gaza ends.
The Times of Israel Community.