Jon Polin, father of murdered hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, speaks at a religious Zionist rally in Jerusalem calling on the government to a promote a deal to free all the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, December 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The father of murdered hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin says that coalition members should stop wearing the yellow pins that signify support for those held in Gaza.
“A personal request to all 68 members of the coalition in Israel from the father of a hostage who was murdered in captivity in Gaza:
Please stop wearing the yellow pin for the hostages. Every time I see one of you with the pin, it adds to the pain,” Jon Polin writes on social media.
Goldberg-Polin was abducted to Gaza during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught while hiding in a bomb shelter after running from terrorists who raided the Nova rave near Kibbutz Re’im.
He and five other hostages were executed by their Hamas captors in August. Their bodies were recovered and brought back to Israel by the IDF.
Polin last week expressed his gratitude to Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar after ministers voted to fire him, saying that the security chief was one of the individuals who pushed to widen the mandate of Israel’s hostage negotiating team amid pushback from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
This undated photo provided by Rachel Goldberg shows her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin. (Courtesy of Rachel Goldberg via AP)
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