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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

Keith Siegel

Aviva and Keith Siegel, after Keith's release home from Hamas captivity on February 1, 2025 (Courtesy)
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Ex-hostage Keith Siegel hopes for the war’s end and the return home of all hostages
By Jessica Steinberg
The Kibbutz Kfar Aza resident spoke about the torturous experiences in captivity, and his need to do anything he can to help the remaining hostages come home
Aviva and Keith Siegel, after Keith's release home from Hamas captivity on February 1, 2025 (Courtesy)
July 11, 2025, 4:25 pm
Ex-hostage Keith Siegel hopes for the war’s end and the return home of all hostages
The Kibbutz Kfar Aza resident spoke about the torturous experiences in captivity, and his need to do anything he can to help the remaining hostages come home
By Jessica Steinberg
Keith Siegel (Flash90)
July 11, 2025, 7:31 am
Friday Focus: Former hostage Keith Siegel wants to have hope
Israeli-American speaks about the hostages with whom he was held captive in Gaza, and his need to speak out for those who are still there
By Jessica Steinberg
Ex-captive Keith Siegel and families of hostages attend a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 8, 2025, 2:54 pm
‘They held a gun to her head’: Released hostage shares new details of Hamas abuse
‘These sights haunt me to this day and it’s getting harder and harder,’ Keith Siegel tells Knesset committee, urging a hostage-ceasefire deal
By ToI Staff
Former hostages hold a press conference in Tel Aviv, April 28, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
April 28, 2025, 11:25 pm
‘Medieval torture’: Former hostages plead with Trump to free remaining captives
Freed hostages hold English-language presser addressed to US president, recalling brutality, inhumanity, torture and agony of Hamas captivity, beg for him to restart serious truce talks
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
Bereaved Israelis, relatives of hostages and released hostages sing 'Hatikvah' at Auschwitz, April 23, 2025 (Channel 12 screenshot)
April 24, 2025, 10:04 am
At Auschwitz, Oct. 7 survivors and freed hostages sing ‘Hatikvah’
10 former hostages to participate in annual March of the Living event at former Nazi death camp; Holocaust survivor tells two released hostages: ‘We stand firm in the face of evil’
By ToI Staff and JTA
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
Yarden Bibas is interviewed on CBS's 60 Minutes, March 30, 2025 (CBS 60 Minutes)
March 31, 2025, 10:51 am
Yarden Bibas to 60 Minutes: Only Trump can convince Netanyahu, Hamas to renew ceasefire-hostage deal
CBS show speaks with five former hostages, who describe witnessing sexual assault, suicidal thoughts and seeing the US president as their last hope
By Jacob Magid
(L-R): Former hostage Aviva Siegel, her daughter Shir and husband, recently released hostage Keith, celebrate the opening of the Keit Siegel Pancake House at Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 7:54 pm
‘More than the taste’: Israelis flock to former hostage Keith Siegel’s Pancake House
Line snakes around kosher Tel Aviv pop-up joint that celebrates US-born captivity survivor’s signature hotcakes, as family appeals to public for support in adapting to new normal
By Deborah Danan
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
From left to right: Freed hostages Aviva Siegel, Keith Siegel, Yarden Bibas, Iair Horn, Yocheved Lifshitz and Sasha Troufanov attend a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 18, 2025, 11:19 pm
‘They’re not just posters, they’re people’: Freed hostages urge deal to save those left behind
Families fear resumed war could be fatal for loved ones; Sasha Troufanov asks ‘why are we abandoning them’; Yarden Bibas say he’s ‘petrified’ for his friends; Noa Argamani pleads to save every soul
By Jessica Steinberg and Noam Lehmann
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
Recently released hostage Keith Siegel thanks US President Donald Trump for his involvement in the hostage release and ceasefire deal, and pleads with the president to ensure all are released, in a video message published on February 14, 2025. (Screenshot)
February 14, 2025, 3:10 pm
‘I was starved and tortured’: Keith Siegel urges Trump to ensure all hostages freed
Dual national tells US president ‘you are the reason I am home alive’; released captive Or Levy visits Hostages Square, days after release from Hamas captivity: ‘Hope dies last’
By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg
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
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