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Monday, October 20, 2025
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Monday, October 20, 2025
Freed hostages Segev Kalfon, Bar Kuperstein released from hospital
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L: Segev Kalfon (Courtesy, undated); R: Bar Kuperstein at Sheba Hospital on October 17, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
Segev Kalfon and Bar Kuperstein have been released from Sheba Medical Center, the hospital says.
They were both released, along with the other 18 living hostages who remained in Hamas captivity at the time, on October 13, as part of phase one of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.
Both men were abducted by terorrists from the Nova music festival during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel.
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