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Hailing deal, Herzog says ‘all of Israel stands with the hostages’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.
President Isaac Herzog and his wife, Michal, appear in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv as part of a nationwide protest, August 17, 2025. (President's Office)
President Isaac Herzog says “all of Israel stands with the hostages” in a social media post celebrating Hamas’s agreement to freeing the hostages as part of the US plan for ending the Gaza war.
“At this hour, all of Israel stands with the hostages. All of Israel stands with their families,” Herzog writes in a Hebrew-language post on X.
“They shall return from the land of the enemy… and children shall return to their own borders,” he adds, quoting a verse from the biblical book of Jeremiah.
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