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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 595

Bar Kuperstein

Tal Kuperstein, left, and Ora Rubinstein, father and aunt of hostage Bar Kuperstein on April 29, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
May 6, 2025, 12:19 pm
Hostage’s father struggles to speak again in effort to bring his son home
Tal Kuperstein, recovering from a stroke that followed a serious car accident, is pushing himself to do everything he can to get his captive son Bar freed from Gaza
By Jessica Steinberg
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a Religious Zionism party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 5, 2025, 5:02 pm
Smotrich: Israel should embrace Gaza ‘occupation’; IDF won’t leave even for hostages
Hostage Families Forum says government ‘choosing territory over hostages’; opposition chiefs say occupying Gaza will ‘cost us in blood,’ soldiers being sent to die over politics
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
Michael Kuperstein (left), a Holocaust survivor and the grandfather of hostage Bar Kuperstein (right), in a TV interview in February 2024. (Kan news screenshot/Courtesy)
April 23, 2025, 7:50 pm
‘It’s a second Holocaust’: Survivor pleads for return of his hostage grandson
Michael Kuperstein, whose grandson Bar Kuperstein was kidnapped from the Nova festival, will march in Auschwitz as he waits desperately for Bar to be freed from Gaza captivity
By AFP and ToI Staff
Hostages Maxim Herkin (left) and Bar Kuperstein. (Courtesy)
April 5, 2025, 11:23 pm
Hamas hostage video shows Maxim Herkin and Bar Kuperstein, in first signs of life
Both captives’ families ask Israeli media not to publish the clip itself; official says PM ‘updated’ on video, recently spoke with the families
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
Bar Kuperstein was working at the Nova desert rave when Hamas terrorists attacked on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
September 14, 2024, 7:48 pm
Nova hostage’s tefillin draw thousands in Israel and abroad to pray for his safe return
Israeli attorney travels with Bar Kuperstein’s phylacteries across Israel and North America at behest of captive’s mother
By ToI Staff
Bar Kuperstein was working at the Nova desert rave when Hamas terrorists attacked on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
November 8, 2023, 5:21 pm
Taken captive: Bar Kuperstein, last seen tied up by Hamas
The 22-year-old gave first aid to the injured at the Supernova rave, October 7
By ToI Staff
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