Released hostage Alon Ohel discharged from hospital, will begin rehabilitation process

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24 October 2025, 11:12 am

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Reporter at The Times of Israel

From left to right: Prof. Noa Elyakim Raz, director of the returnees' department at Rabin Medical Center, Alon Ohel, Avivit Zetelman, head nurse in charge of the returnees' department, and Prof. Gil Salsman, head of the mental health care team at Rabin Medical Center's returnees department. (Courtesy of Guy Yehieli)

Released hostage Alon Ohel has been discharged from Rabin Medical Center today after completing the required tests, the hospital says.

“Thank you to all the people of Israel, who supported my family and did everything to bring me home,” Ohel said upon leaving the hospital, according to Ynet. He said he would “begin a process of rehabilitation and self-improvement so I can move on with my life and achieve all my goals, all of the things I want to do in life.”

Ohel, a musician, was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, and was held captive in Gaza for two years. He was released along with 19 other surviving hostages on October 13, as part of a ceasefire agreement that ended the war.