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Participants with Israel's flag walk along a rail track leading to the gate of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland, during the annual March of The Living to honor the victims of the Holocaust on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
April 12, 2026, 1:24 pm
Despite war cancellations, Holocaust survivors from Israel to join March of the Living
Around a dozen survivors, aged 90-100, will travel to Poland though most Israeli delegates forced to cancel; march to be led by survivors of attacks on Jews; former hostages to light torch
By Stuart Winer
Hostage families and mothers praying at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem in the West Bank in November 2024. (David Weill)
August 2, 2025, 7:57 am
‘Shabbat kept me’: Many hostages and families have turned to faith in the face of trauma
For October 7 captives and their relatives, Jewish rituals have often become lifelines. Psychologists say religion offers meaning — but warn of vulnerabilities
By Rossella Tercatin
Freed Israeli hostage Agam Berger meets with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris, May 23, 2025. (French Foreign Ministry)
May 25, 2025, 12:50 am
Former hostage Agam Berger to French FM: ‘Diplomatic solutions’ won’t end conflict
At meeting in Paris with Jean-Noel Barrot, Berger urges firm stance against Hamas, as French-Israeli tensions mount over Gaza and push for Palestinian state recognition
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
The dress rehearsal of Israel's 77th Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, April 28, 2025. The dress rehearsal was broadcast on television following the live performance's cancellation.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 1, 2025, 1:48 am
Ex-hostages star in recorded Independence Day ceremony after live event canceled
Agam Berger plays violin and Emily Damari lights torch in taping of dress rehearsal that was aired after ceremony called off due to strong winds, which sparked major fires; Channel 14 does not show Dana International
By ToI Staff
Bereaved Israelis, relatives of hostages and released hostages sing 'Hatikvah' at Auschwitz, April 23, 2025 (Channel 12 screenshot)
April 24, 2025, 10:04 am
At Auschwitz, Oct. 7 survivors and freed hostages sing ‘Hatikvah’
10 former hostages to participate in annual March of the Living event at former Nazi death camp; Holocaust survivor tells two released hostages: ‘We stand firm in the face of evil’
By ToI Staff and JTA
The Asufa haggadah for 2025 includes multiple images showing yellow chairs at seder tables, symbolizing the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza. (Philissa Cramer / JTA)
April 12, 2025, 4:29 pm
‘Why are they still there?’ asks Rachel Goldberg-Polin, on 2nd Passover with hostages in Gaza
‘This year there is one question and one question only,’ says mother of slain hostage Hersh, as Jews mark festival of freedom with 59 hostages still held, 24 of them believed alive
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Former hostage Agam Berger (center) and family members visit the Old City of Jerusalem, on February 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 11, 2025, 2:30 pm
Ex-hostage recalls Passover in Gaza, says remaining captives ‘in chains’ during holiday
Agam Berger recounts how she clung to faith during her 482 days in captivity, says she marked festival of freedom last year with corn flour pita, decorations from ‘scraps of paper’
By ToI Staff
Freed hostage Agam Berger plays a violin that once belonged to a Jewish musician who was murdered in the Holocaust, March 8, 2025. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 11, 2025, 8:38 am
Ex-hostage Agam Berger will perform at Auschwitz during March of the Living
Former captives and their families, alongside relatives of current hostages and Oct. 7 victims, set to join 80 Holocaust survivors, marking 80 years since end of World War II
By Jessica Steinberg
Released hostage Agam Berger in Jerusalem with the Lu Yehi Orchestra on April 8, 2025 (Courtesy)
April 10, 2025, 1:24 am
Released hostage Agam Berger joins orchestra that once played for her release
Freed captive and violinist plays in Jerusalem with the Lu Yehi Orchestra, an intergenerational, multicultural team of professional and amateur musicians
By Jessica Steinberg
Yarden Bibas is interviewed on CBS's 60 Minutes, March 30, 2025 (CBS 60 Minutes)
March 31, 2025, 10:51 am
Yarden Bibas to 60 Minutes: Only Trump can convince Netanyahu, Hamas to renew ceasefire-hostage deal
CBS show speaks with five former hostages, who describe witnessing sexual assault, suicidal thoughts and seeing the US president as their last hope
By Jacob Magid
Israelis attend a rally demanding a deal to bring hostages home from Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 21, 2025, 11:07 pm
‘Israel choosing endless war’: 40 freed hostages demand end to fighting, return to talks
Also signed by 250 family members of hostages, letter calls renewed fighting in Gaza Strip a ‘criminal policy’ that risks lives of living hostages, disappearing the fallen
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Liri Albag is interviewed on Channel 12 on March 5, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)
March 8, 2025, 2:15 pm
Liri Albag recalls Gaza ‘hell,’ pain of knowing those against hostage deal would ‘sacrifice’ her
Freed hostage, kidnapped on October 7 while serving as a surveillance soldier, says she set boundaries between her and her captors; modestly dismisses accounts of her bravery
By ToI Staff
Freed hostage Agam Berger (right) reunites with her parents Shlomi and Merav at an IDF facility next to the Gaza border on January 30, 2025. (IDF)
February 25, 2025, 2:52 pm
Freed hostage on deal debate: ‘We felt like our lives weren’t worth enough’
Agam Berger says she had access to radio until four hostages were rescued by Israeli forces; family of Bar Kuperstein says hostages released Saturday confirmed he is alive
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump walks from the Oval Office to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, February 14, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Alex Brandon); inset: former hostage soldier Agam Berger in a video message published February 17, 2025. (Screenshot, X)
February 18, 2025, 2:59 pm
Trump reposts video from freed hostage Agam Berger imploring him to get all captives home
Weeks after being freed from captivity, 20-year-old surveillance soldier calls on US president to secure release of remaining hostages in Gaza, says he ‘has the power to do it’
By ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) meets with former hostage soldiers (from left) Naama Levy, Agam Berger, Liri Albag, and Karina Ariev, February 14, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 14, 2025, 3:49 pm
IDF chief apologizes to freed surveillance soldiers for failing them on and before Oct. 7
Agam Berger, Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev tell Halevi of attack on Nahal Oz post, 15 months of captivity; chief of staff: ‘It was wrong to have not taken [your warnings] seriously’
By Emanuel Fabian
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