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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

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Jeff Burak marches in Boulder, Colo., on Sunday, June 8, 2025, to call for the release of Israeli hostages. (AP/Thomas Peipert)
June 9, 2025, 7:00 am
Hundreds in Boulder walk in support of hostages week after fiery attack
Large crowd attends weekly event that normally draws a few dozen, as hostage relatives join annual festival to thank community for support following pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel firebombing
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and JESSE BEDAYN
Protesters rally in support of the hostages in Central Park, New York City, June 8, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
June 8, 2025, 11:43 pm
Undeterred by Colorado attack, several hundred rally for hostages in NYC
More activists than usual attend the weekly rally in wake of Boulder firebombing; ‘We will not be stopped by hate,’ organizer tells crowd
By Luke Tress
A Muslim woman prays during an event to mark the 10th anniversary of the kidnapping of students from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok by Boko Haram, in Lagos, Nigeria, April 14, 2024. (AP/Sunday Alamba)
May 26, 2025, 10:13 am
Netanyahu compares October 7 hostages to girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
PM recorded telling families Israel doing more than any other country to return its abducted citizens, but mass kidnappings are not unique to Hamas
By ToI Staff
Dr. Noya Shilo, head of the Return to Life Center at Sheba Medical Center, walks with two hostages released from Gaza captivity in February 2024. (Courtesy/Sheba Medical Center)
May 10, 2025, 11:03 am
Facing a hostage situation without precedent, Israeli hospitals innovate to rehabilitate
With few guidelines to assist them in reacclimating child hostages, the elderly, and abductees held for hundreds of days, doctors have forged their own protocols to help former captives thrive
By Diana Bletter
Abdallah Aljamal, who was holding three Israeli hostages captive in his home in central Gaza's Nuseirat. Aljamal was killed and the hostages were rescued on June 8, 2024. (Social media)
May 9, 2025, 12:54 am
US judge says there’s reason to believe US-based media nonprofit aided Hamas
Lawsuit filed by former hostages makes ‘plausible claim’ that Palestine Chronicle, whose employee held the Israelis captive, aided in their kidnapping
By Luke Tress
Rescued hostage Noa Argamani attends an emergency conference on the medical condition of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip at the President Residence in Jerusalem, December 10, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
April 16, 2025, 6:55 pm
Rescued hostage Noa Argamani included in Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025
Former US second gentleman Doug Emhoff lauds her ‘extraordinary courage and humanity in speaking out’ for remaining captives; ADL chief Greenblatt also on list
By ToI Staff and JTA
Former hostage Eliya Cohen recites the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall on April 15, 2025. (Western Wall Foundation)
April 15, 2025, 8:30 pm
Tens of thousands flock to Western Wall as ex-hostage Eliya Cohen says priestly blessing
During the ceremony, the young man holds up posters for two captives still in the Strip, Segev Kalfon and Alon Ohel, as the massive crowd recites the prayer for the hostages
By Rossella Tercatin
Hostage soldier Edan Alexander is seen in a propaganda video released by the Hamas terror group on April 12, 2025. (Courtesy)
April 14, 2025, 12:59 am
‘Why am I not home?’ Edan Alexander’s family okays publication of Hamas propaganda video
In anguished clip, US-Israeli hostage soldier says ‘we’re losing hope’; aunt says family couldn’t celebrate Passover Seder: ‘What is freedom when he is kept underground?’
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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
Smoke billows from an Israeli strike at Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, on March 27, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
March 28, 2025, 11:38 pm
69% of Israelis, 54% of coalition voters back ending war in exchange for hostages — poll
Breaking with government, clear majority appears to prioritize captives; Ron Dermer denies report he has not met hostages’ families since taking lead on negotiations
By ToI Staff
Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, in a video addressing Hamas and world leaders, March 27, 2025. (Screenshot/Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 27, 2025, 5:16 pm
In hostage-style video, Einav Zangauker asks Hamas for signs of life from all captives
Speaking Hebrew and Arabic, protest leader Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan has been held in Gaza for 538 days, asks captors to keep him safe, urges Trump’s intervention
By Stav Levaton
US presidential envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler speaks during a ceremony to raise the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag at the State Department, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
March 17, 2025, 3:02 pm
Embattled US hostage envoy hosts summit for global counterparts in Big Sky, Montana
Attendees, some of whom double-checked event was still on after Boehler withdrew nomination to become presidential envoy, to sign joint statement on collaborating against hostage taking
By Jacob Magid
Paramilitary soldiers stand guard at a railway station in the Sibi district of southwestern Balochistan province on March 12, 2025, during a security operation against militants a day after they hijacked a passenger train. (Banaras KHAN / AFP)
March 12, 2025, 7:10 pm
Pakistani separatists say they killed 50 hostages on train, siege reportedly over
Authorities say 300 people have been rescued, but some killed, in daylong standoff, after separatist group BLA blows up tracks, takes passengers hostage
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic who was kidnapped in Iraq in March 2023, speaks in a clip aired November 13, 2023, by Iraq's Al Rabiaa satellite TV network. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 12, 2025, 1:43 am
Trump’s hostage envoy visited Iraq to push for release of Israeli captive — sources
Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov believed to be held by Iran-backed militia; sister says Trump administration has done more in a few weeks than Biden’s did in two years
By Reuters, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Posters of Israelis held hostage in Gaza are seen posted outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, under a banner reading: "First, the hostages!" on March 9, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
March 10, 2025, 10:17 am
Israeli negotiators set to head to Qatar for hostage talks, amid Gaza aid cut-off
US envoy Witkoff reportedly expected in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and in Doha on Wednesday; hostage families sleep outside Defense Ministry, demanding deal
By Agencies, Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
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