Brother of hostage Bar Kupershtein: ‘We know he’s alive – but tomorrow everything could change’

Dvir Kupershtein, the brother of hostage Bar Kupershtein, tells a Knesset committee that his brother is alive, but might not be in another minute or hour or day.

“We know that Bar is alive 100%, but tomorrow everything could change, or even in an another hour or minute,” says Dvir of his brother, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023.

Bar, who was working as festival security, is not slated for release in the current first stage of the ceasefire deal, with future possible stages hanging in the balance.

“He’s not just another hostage, he’s my brother and he’s a hero,” Dvir tells the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. “He evacuated the wounded under fire to save lives, he went back again and again to save people, and when he’s the one who needed help there was nobody there to save him.”