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Friday, October 17, 2025
Sea change: Images show exuberant freed hostage Omri Miran at beach with young family
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Omri Miran, freed Monday after 738 days held by terrorists in Gaza, looks exuberant as he visits the beach and paddles in the sea with his wife and two young daughters.
In footage, Miran watches as four-year-old Roni, and Alma, 2, play in the surf and build a sand castle.
A photo shows Miran grinning as he stands in the water, tilting his face upward toward the sky.
לראשונה אפשר להבין את המשמעות האמיתית של המילה ״חופשי״.
עמרי מירן בים.
צילום: אלי טייכמן ושיר כץ. pic.twitter.com/IoHeXP3Kjc— Michal Peylan • מיכל פעילן (@michalpeylan) October 17, 2025
Miran was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the Gaza war.
Earlier today he was discharged from Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Medical Center and was greeted by hundreds upon his arrival at Kibbutz Kramim, to which his wife Lishay and the girls relocated due to the widespread destruction in Nahal Oz.
משפחת מירן מבלה בחוף – בהרכב מלא: עמרי, לישי, רוני ועלמא@YoavBorowitz @YCiechanover (צילום: אלי טייכמן ושיר כץ) pic.twitter.com/nkZ5YodVny
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) October 17, 2025
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