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Monday, May 12, 2025
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Monday, May 12, 2025
Hostage’s grandmother awaiting his return ‘on his own two feet’
Stav Levaton is a military reporter for The Times of Israel
Edan Alexander's grandmother, Varda Ben Baruch (left), speaks to reporters on May 12, 2025 (Channel 12 screenshot)
Edan Alexander’s grandmother, Varda Ben Baruch, tells Channel 12 news that all she wants is for her grandson to come home “healthy, in one piece, and on his own two feet.”
“I’m waiting for our family to be whole again,” she says, adding that she hopes every hostage’s family will soon feel the same joy.
In anticipation of her grandson’s return, Ben Baruch says she has already baked his favorite pastries.
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