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Illustrative: People take shelter in an underground metro station as air raid sirens warn of incoming strikes by Iran, in Ramat Gan, Israel, February 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
March 14, 2026, 10:34 am
For freed former hostages, the war with Iran is a trigger, but far from their darkest hour
With some ex-captives released as recently as this past October, the sirens and missile attacks stir up traumatic experiences, especially for those held underground in Hamas tunnels
By Jessica Steinberg
Supporters at a Friday gathering for their son Ran Gvili, the remaining hostage body in Gaza, near Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on January 9, 2026 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 9, 2026, 6:27 pm
Kibbutz Alumim members gather in Tel Aviv, call for return of hostage Ran Gvili’s body
Gvili’s father rejects regional council head’s apology for death of son, who came to kibbutz to fight on Oct. 7: ‘Rani went there to fight. He knew where he was going’
By Jessica Steinberg
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Released hostage Bar Kuperstein wears tefillin at a prayer event at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on October 31, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages Forum)
November 10, 2025, 6:53 pm
Freed hostage Bar Kuperstein says he prayed to God regularly in Hamas captivity
Released a month ago after two years of beatings and starvation in Gaza tunnels, Kuperstein says he and his fellow hostages would tell each other ‘we will not let them defeat us’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Freed hostage Bar Kuperstein is greeted by well-wishers as he arrives at his home in Holon, November 2, 2025. (Flash90)
November 2, 2025, 9:13 pm
‘Two years of praying’: Freed hostage Bar Kuperstein returns home to Holon
‘You didn’t let me disappear,’ he tells crowd, following three weeks of recovery; hospital says freed captive Alon Ohel underwent successful surgery for untreated eye injury
By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
Freed hostage Segev Kalfon speaks with Channel 12 news in an interview aired on November 1, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot)
November 2, 2025, 10:41 am
‘Because of Ben Gvir’: Freed hostage Segev Kalfon details vengeful torture in Gaza
Held by Hamas for 2 years, former captive recalls beatings, starvation, psychological torment; other ex-hostages have also linked abuse to actions of far-right minister
By ToI Staff
Released hostage Bar Kuperstein speaks to the Kan public broadcaster in a snippet released on October 26, 2025. (Screen capture via X)
October 27, 2025, 12:54 am
Freed hostage Bar Kuperstein: Captors beat us and ‘said it was because of Ben Gvir’
Kuperstein says he resents that far-right national security minister bragged about harsh conditions imposed on Palestinian security prisoners; Ben Gvir claims press siding with Hamas
By ToI Staff
A crowd cheers as freed hostage Evyatar David arrives at his home in Kfar Saba, October 26, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
October 26, 2025, 9:37 pm
‘So good you’re home’: Discharged from hospital, 5 ex-hostages welcomed home by masses
Crowds across Israel wave flags and sing as Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon and Bar Kuperstein make triumphant return to their homes
By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
Released hostages Eitan Horn (L) and Nimrod Cohen seen upon their release from the hospital and return to their homes in Kfar Saba and Rehovot, on October 16, 2025. (Screenshots/Reuters)
October 16, 2025, 11:12 pm
‘Because of the people’: Two ex-hostages return home from hospital to cheering crowds
Well-wishers waving Israeli flags line roads welcoming back Eitan Horn and Nimrod Cohen; hospital says it will continue monitoring recovery of freed captives
By ToI Staff and Diana Bletter
From L-R: Miri Ben Ami, mother of freed hostage; Rivka Bohbot, wife of freed hostage Elkana Bohbot; Avi Ohana, the father of released hostage Yosef Chaim Ohana; Liran Berman, brother of freed hostages Gali and Ziv Berman; and Maccabit Meir, the Bermans' aunt, speaking at Sheba Hospital on October 14, 2025. (Credit: Oriel Even Sapir/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
October 15, 2025, 1:34 am
‘Coming back to life’: Freed hostages’ families give updates, thanks; some snub PM
Relatives of many of the 20 released captives thank Trump, IDF, Israeli nation as they detail the physical and emotional scars from Gaza that the freed hostages bear
By ToI Staff
The 20 living hostages released on October 13, 2025: First row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from let: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Rom Braslavski, Gali Berman, Ziv Berman. Third row, from left: Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Final row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Omri Miran.
October 11, 2025, 2:46 pm
The final 20 living hostages released from Gaza
First phase of Trump’s Gaza deal sees return of 20 living hostages; bodies of 28 others are also supposed to be returned
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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
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