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Saturday, February 8, 2025
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Saturday, February 8, 2025
Ohad Ben Ami’s daughter: I didn’t recognize him at first, but he’s come back alive; he survived!
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Ella Ben Ami speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on January 18, 2024. (Screen capture/Facebook)
Ella Ben Ami, who phoned Channel 12 news on the morning of October 7, 2023, to tell Israel that she had seen a photograph of her father Ohad abducted to Gaza — and was unaware at the time that her mother had also been abducted — tells the same TV station of her relief and joy that her father has been released. (Her mother Raz was freed in November 2023.)
“I barely recognized him,” she says of her father Ohad. “It took me a second to realize that it was Dad.”
But, she adds, “I’m sure we’ll get past that quickly. I simply want to hug him.
“He’s come back on his own two feet. He’s come back alive. He’s waved. He’s strong. He survived it!” she exults.
“We’ll accompany him on the road to recovery.”
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