Einav Zangauker: Israel must propose comprehensive hostage deal ‘without slogans, without torpedoing, without failures’

7 August 2025, 8:57 pm

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Einav Zangauker (3rd left) holds images of her son, Matan, at a protest calling for the end of the war in Gaza and the release of all hostages, in Jerusalem, August 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan is held hostage in Gaza, tells protesters outside a security cabinet meeting in Jerusalem that Israel must propose a deal to end the war and bring all the hostages home.

“Without slogans, without torpedoing, without failures,” she says, according to quotes published by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.

“I turn to you, IDF chief of staff — you are my son’s top commander. Matan was put at the front of the country to defend it, and your job now is to save him. Demand from the political echelon, first and foremost, to exhaust all the possibilities to return them in a comprehensive deal,” she says.