Rescued hostage Argamani eulogizes mother after being reunited ‘against all odds’

Rescued hostage Noa Argamani says she is grateful she was able to spend her mother’s last moments with her as Liora Argamani is laid to rest in Beersheba, after she died earlier in the day following a lengthy battle with brain cancer.

“I stand here and it’s still hard for me to accept. Against all odds I was privileged to be with you in your last moments, to talk to you, laugh with you and hear you,” she says in front of a packed room.

Noa Argamani was kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7 and held hostage until June 8, when she was rescued from an apartment building in central Gaza, along with three other hostages in a nearby building, in an operation by Israeli special forces. She was swiftly reunited with her mother, who was already in a deteriorated condition, and the two spent the last weeks together.

“Thank you for being strong and holding on so I could see you one last time,” Argamani says.

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She thanks her mother for their 26 years together and for everything she taught her.

“You made me who I am today,” she says.