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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 641

Aviva Siegel

US President Donald Trump greets Israeli hostages who were released from Gaza, during the National Republican Congressional Committee's (NRCC) "President's Dinner" at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, on April 8, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
April 9, 2025, 10:36 am
‘We owe our lives to you’: Former Gaza hostages implore Trump to help free the rest
‘You saved the lives of 33 hostages,’ Israeli-American Keith Siegel tells president at DC event; Trump says Hamas is a ‘disaster,’ what hostages endured is ‘horrible’
By ToI Staff
Reunited siblings Lee Siegel, left, David Siegel, Lucy Siegel and released hostage Keith Siegel, right, on February 9, 2025 (Courtesy)
February 9, 2025, 9:01 pm
Released hostage Keith Siegel’s siblings say their brother tracked calendar to stay sane
Siegel’s family have spent past week together, reminiscing and listening to his harrowing details of the last 15 months
By Jessica Steinberg
US-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, right, reunites with his wife Aviva shortly after being released from captivity in Gaza, February 1, 2025. (IDF)
February 8, 2025, 5:47 pm
Family of freed hostage Keith Siegel says there were ‘moments when he lost all hope’
Aviva Siegel, who was also a captive, tearfully informed her husband that his mother died, recounts being frightened by how thin he was upon return: ‘He didn’t look like Keith’
By ToI Staff
Released hostage Keith Siegel reunites with his family at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital) on February 1, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 6, 2025, 8:17 pm
Freed hostages tell of deprivation in Gaza, urge return of all those still captive
Keith Siegel was made to lie down at all times for the last two months of captivity; Romi Gonen, so deprived of food, no longer recognized feeling of hunger upon her release
By Melanie Lidman
Captivity survivor Emily Damari, left, and hostage Kieth Siegel. (Courtesy)
January 25, 2025, 1:18 pm
Emily Damari said to have asked Hamas captors to release Keith Siegel, 65, before her
Siegel, slated for release later in first phase, is believed in worse shape; his daughter Shir extols Damari, who was shot in hand when abducted, as ‘once-in-a-generation friend’
By ToI Staff
Aviva Siegel, who was held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip for 51 days after she was kidnapped with her husband on Oct. 7, poses for a portrait in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
October 1, 2024, 10:06 am
A year on, ex-hostage Aviva Siegel fights to keep hope alive for husband still in Gaza
Released in November, the Kfar Aza resident is still tormented, recalling the hellish conditions that her American-Israeli spouse Keith is suffering under as hopes for a deal fade
By Tia Goldenberg
Former Gaza hostage Aviva Siegel, wife of hostage Keith Siegel, a US citizen, listens during a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable discussion with families of US hostages held by Hamas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
September 23, 2024, 3:17 pm
‘It could have been Keith’: Aviva Siegel says hostages’ murders sap her hopes for husband
She survived 51 days of Gazan captivity, but doesn’t know if her partner of 40 years is still alive, and what tortures he has undergone if he is
By Jessica Steinberg
Rachel Goldberg-Polin eulogizes her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, at his funeral in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
September 2, 2024, 10:20 pm
‘We all failed you’: Heartbreak at funeral for Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem
Thousands attend burial of dual US-Israeli citizen who became a symbol in the battle for the hostages, and was executed by his Hamas captors along with five others
By Jessica Steinberg and Agencies
Freed hostage Aviva Siegel during an interview to Channel 12, aired February 16, 2024. On Siegel's shirt is a picture of her husband Keith, still in Hamas captivity. (Screen capture: Channel 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).
February 17, 2024, 4:43 pm
Freed hostage Aviva Siegel recounts Hamas’s sexual abuse, violence toward captives
Siegel, whose husband Keith is still captive in Gaza, says terrorists dressed young female hostages as ‘dolls,’ watched them bathe; world ‘missed lesson of the Holocaust’
By ToI Staff
Aviva Siegel (L) and her daughter Shir testify at the Knesset caucus on victims of sexual and gender violence in the war, January 23, 2024 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 23, 2024, 3:06 pm
‘Right now someone is being raped in a tunnel’: Knesset hears of Hamas sex crimes
Captors treating hostages like sex dolls, former hostage says; another survivor notes some female hostages no longer getting periods, prays they won’t become pregnant
By Sam Sokol
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