Former captive Bar Kuperstein is released from Kfar Maccabiah, the Ramat Gan hotel complex that has served as housing for released hostages and their families while they recuperated at nearby hospitals after returning to Israel.
Kuperstein stands outside the hotel’s front doors alongside his father, Tal Kuperstein, who learned how to stand and speak during his son’s captivity, after suffering a stroke during a surgery prior to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack.
Kuperstein, from Holon, was working as a medic at the Nova music festival on October 7 when he was taken captive.
He was released from Hamas captivity on October 13, one of the final 20 surviving hostages.
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