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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Herzog says country has lost focus on the hostages
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
President Isaac Herzog speaks at a conference on rehabilitating war wounded on March 25, 2025. (Haim Zach/GPO)
The country has lost focus on the hostages in Gaza, laments President Isaac Herzog, speaking at the Defense Ministry Rehabilitation Department’s first international conference.
“I am quite shocked how suddenly the issue of the hostages is no longer at the top of the priority list and at the top of the news — how can this be?” he says. “We must, throughout this entire time, not lose eye contact, as a nation and of course as a governing system, with everything related to bringing the hostages home, down to the last one.”
Herzog also argues that the law currently does not provide adequate support for freed hostages and their families.
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