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Gadi Mozes

Former hostage Gadi Mozes speaks with Channel 12 on the new rosemary fields of Kibbutz Nir Oz, in an interview broadcast November 28, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
November 29, 2025, 1:53 pm
Ex-hostage Gadi Mozes finds victory in return to Kibbutz Nir Oz’s newly planted fields
But the oldest surviving hostage feels betrayed by government ministers, who have not contacted him in the 10 months since he was freed and continue to oppose Oct. 7 state probe
By ToI Staff
The Democrats party leader Yair Golan speaks at a memorial rally marking the 30th anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv on November 1, 2025. The banner reads “Yes to Peace. No to Violence!” (Noam Amir / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
November 2, 2025, 1:57 am
‘The shots still resonate’: 150,000 mourn at protest rally 30 years after Rabin’s murder
Politicians and other speakers say divisive forces that motivated assassination of PM are still present; rally ends with ‘A Song for Peace,’ which Rabin sang before he was killed
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
People visit the monument site for assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on November 4, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 1, 2025, 3:28 pm
Ahead of Rabin memorial rally, son says Israeli leaders reignite hatred and division
Yuval Rabin says he sees echos of incitement that led to father’s murder, as masses expected in Tel Aviv at 1st rally in 5 years, marking 30 years since PM assassinated
By Stav Levaton
A ceremony marks rebuilding in Kibbutz Nir Oz, August 7, 2025, almost two years after the October 7 massacre. (Tsafrir Abayov/FLASH90)
August 7, 2025, 11:37 pm
Kibbutz Nir Oz suspends cornerstone-laying event to protest cabinet meeting on Gaza plan
Kibbutz chairman urges government to return hostages as part of agreement, even if price is high, says Nir Oz understands dangers of Hamas better than cabinet members
By Sue Surkes
Four members of the Pauker family in the the Kibbutz Nir Oz vineyards, planted by Gideon Pauker before he was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Credit Naama Kaspi)
July 2, 2025, 2:04 pm
To life: Grandson revives wines of vintner killed October 7 in Kibbutz Nir Oz
Pauker Winery becomes a commercial enterprise in the name of murdered kibbutznik Gideon Pauker, carried on by his family and winemaking friends
By Jessica Steinberg
Freed hostages Doron Katz-Asher, left, sits near the grave of her mother Efrat Katz, alongside Efrat's partner, former hostage Gadi Mozes, in Kibbutz Revadim, during an interview broadcast by Channel 12 on May 23, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
May 24, 2025, 3:00 pm
Ex-captive Doron Katz-Asher recalls watching her mother die in her arms on Oct. 7
36-year-old says she has gotten over guilt of missing her mother’s funeral while in captivity: ‘I was there with her in her final moments, and I really did say goodbye’
By ToI Staff
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 24, 2025, 11:31 pm
Former hostages, survivors and the bereaved walk together in March of the Living
Channeling horrors of the Holocaust on the march through Auschwitz, President Herzog says the ‘return of the hostages is a universal human imperative’
By Jessica Steinberg
A handout photo shows freed captive Omer Wenkert addressing a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, April 5, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
April 6, 2025, 3:36 am
‘See the tears in our eyes’: Ex-captive Wenkert urges cabinet to invite him to meeting
At weekly rallies, freed hostages demand return to deal; Liri Albag ahead of Passover, the festival of freedom: ‘What kind of freedom is it when 59 people are still in Hamas hell?’
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Released hostage Gadi Mozes speaks in a television interview broadcast March 20, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
March 22, 2025, 3:03 pm
Gadi Mozes recounts 482 days of solitary captivity: ‘Everything was psychological abuse’
Former hostage, 80, slams Netanyahu for not visiting Nir Oz, ‘evil’ government for not even welcoming him on his return; says most urgent thing for him is ‘friends still there’
By ToI Staff
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 Gadi Mozes, second from left, with his sons and daughter after being discharged from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, February 6, 2025. (Courtesy)
March 12, 2025, 11:17 am
‘Let’s get to work’: Ex-hostage Gadi Mozes calls on Nir Oz members to rebuild
In a letter to kibbutz residents, Mozes, 80, says he believes that with hard work the community can ‘return to being a warm and vibrant home’
By Amy Spiro
Eli Sharabi is interviewed on Channel 12's "Uvda" program, in a segment aired on February 27, 2025. (Channel 12/screenshot)
February 28, 2025, 12:29 pm
Recently freed hostage recounts extreme hunger, gut-wrenching farewell to still-held captive
Eli Sharabi, whose wife and daughters were slain on Oct. 7, says he’s ‘not angry’; he ‘adopted’ Alon Ohel, who was inconsolable ahead of Sharabi’s release; Hamas worsened abuse based on Israeli leaders’ remarks
By ToI Staff
Gadi Mozes, 80, surrounded by gunmen during his release from captivity in Khan Younis, Gaza, January 30, 2025. (Via social media)
February 13, 2025, 1:40 pm
Regards from a dead partner: Relative relays ‘psychological terror’ faced by hostage
Gadi Mozes’s daughter-in-law speaks about how the 80-year-old managed to keep himself going during his long, isolated captivity
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Gadi Mozes, second from left, with his sons and daughter after being discharged from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, February 6, 2025. (Courtesy)
February 6, 2025, 8:16 pm
Ex-hostage Gadi Mozes, 80, leaves hospital: ‘Thrilled and astounded’
A week after release from Hamas captivity, farmer looks forward to working the fields, vows to help rebuild Nir Oz, says ‘national rehabilitation’ hinges on return of all captives
By ToI Staff
BEFORE: Released hostage Gadi Mozes (center), and his about-to-be cropped son Yair (right) and grandson Erez, at Rabin Medical Center, January 31, 2025. (Courtesy)
January 31, 2025, 3:58 pm
Safely home, freed hostage Gadi Mozes shaves son’s 482-day beard
Yair had vowed not to cut his facial hair until his father returned; Gadi also takes razor to grandson’s Erez’s curls
By Jessica Steinberg
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