Released hostage Matan Angrest takes a three-hour route home to Kiryat Bialik from Kfar Maccabiah Hotel, where the Angrest family and other hostages’ families have been staying.
Angrest was released from Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center-Ichilov in Tel Aviv last week, and has been staying at Kfar Maccabiah near the city until now.
Over the past few days, Angrest attended the funeral of his commander, Daniel Perez, whose body was returned from Gaza, and visited Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square.
The Angrests call on the public to celebrate his return, and well-wishers accompany the family at various points along the route, with Israeli flags and shirts from the campaign to bring him home and from Angrest’s favorite soccer team, Maccabi Haifa. A crowd sang to Angrest as he left Kfar Maccabiah earlier today.
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