Netanyahu mourns slain hostage Shlomo Mantzur, vows to bring all captives home

11 February 2025, 10:49 am

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset, February 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publishes a message mourning the death of hostage Shlomo Mantzur after the IDF revealed he was killed on October 7, 2023, and his body taken to Gaza.

Netanyahu sends his condolences to the family and says Mantzur, 85, was “a builder of the country and a founder of Kibbutz Kissufim” and notes that as a child he was a survivor of the Farhud pogrom carried out against the Jews of Baghdad, Iraq.

“We share the deep mourning of the family. We will not rest and we will not be silent until he is brought back for burial in Israel. We will continue to act with determination until we return all the hostages, the living and the dead,” he says.