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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Leah Goldin

Leah Goldin, mother of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, attends a press conference, August 5, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 21, 2023, 1:50 pm
9 years after Hadar Goldin’s capture in Gaza, fight to declare him ‘kidnapped’ continues
During a 2014 Hamas ceasefire, Leah Goldin’s soldier son was killed and his body secreted within the Gaza Strip. His remains weren’t part of any subsequent agreement. How about now?
By Tal Schneider
US President Joe Biden and President Isaac Herzog, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 26, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
July 17, 2023, 1:50 pm
Herzog heads to DC, hoping to bridge the Biden-Netanyahu divide
President will be feted in US capital, a sharp contrast with continued White House criticism of government over settlements, judicial overhaul
By Lazar Berman
Leah Goldin (C), mother of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin whose body has been held by Hamas since the 2014 Gaza conflict, is prevented along with others from proceeding by Israeli police forces in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Karmia on August 5, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
August 5, 2022, 7:52 pm
Prevented from reaching Gaza border, Goldin family, supporters scuffle with cops
Hundreds joined bereaved family in protest over inaction in returning bodies of soldiers, civilians held by Hamas; Hadar Goldin’s mother: Former PMs were too scared to act
By ToI Staff
Bereaved parents of Hadar Goldin and other family members and supporters gather outside the state memorial ceremony for Operation Protective Edge at Mount Herzl on July 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
July 24, 2022, 10:15 pm
Marking 8 years son’s body held by Hamas, Goldins to march from Kfar Saba to Gaza
Family calls on public to join them in rally, says current government following path of previous ones in doing nothing to return Hadar, Oron Shaul, Avera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed
By ToI Staff
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Leah Goldin, mother of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, attends a press conference, August 5, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 20, 2021, 12:23 pm
Leah Goldin’s fight for her son Hadar
Justin sits down with Leah Goldin to learn about how she tragically was forced to transform overnight from a mother and into an activist as she fights to bring her beloved son, Hadar Goldin (z’l) back to Israel.
Leah, right, and Simcha Goldin, parents of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin whose body was kidnapped by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attend a press conference in Ramat Gan, April 25, 2018. (Flash90)
July 15, 2021, 5:43 pm
Bennett meets with family of fallen IDF soldier held by Hamas
PM tells Hadar Goldin’s parents ‘my door is always open to you,’ amid reports of possible prisoner exchange deal with Gaza-ruling terror group
By ToI Staff
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin speaks with members of the media after meeting with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office June 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
June 30, 2021, 10:06 am
In US, Rivlin proudly shows off inclusion of Islamist Ra’am in Israeli coalition
In farewell tour, president highlights his work for Jewish-Arab coexistence; unoptimistic Leah Goldin tries to get UN chief to force Hamas to hand over her soldier son’s remains
By Tal Schneider
President Reuven Rivlin (middle seated) with a group of 21 UN ambassadors in New York on June 29, 2021. (Shahar Azran)
June 29, 2021, 11:14 pm
At UN, Rivlin makes plea to PA’s Abbas: ‘It’s our role to end conflict’
President meets with UN chief Guterres, 21 ambassadors, urges them to oppose investigations and resolutions against Israel, which he says make peace more difficult to achieve
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian workers recycle metal rods from the rubble of a building destroyed by Israeli air strikes during an 11-day conflict last month, in Gaza City on June 29, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
June 29, 2021, 7:21 pm
US opposes conditioning Gaza reconstruction on return of IDF troops’ bodies
As Israel seeks to link post-war rebuilding in the Strip with prisoner swap, Biden administration concerned demand will derail Cairo negotiations aimed at maintaining ceasefire
By Jacob Magid
Palestinians receive financial aid from Qatar at a post office in Gaza City, November 27, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)
June 15, 2020, 12:07 pm
Israel said to let $50 million in Qatari aid into Gaza; balloon attacks to halt
Defense Minister Gantz, who railed against paying ‘protection’ to Hamas during election campaign, mum on report of such a deal under his watch
By Judah Ari Gross
Attendants at a Beersheba rally for the return of Israeli civilians and slain Israeli soldiers held in the Gaza Strip, February 26, 2020 (YouTube screenshot)
February 27, 2020, 6:44 am
Thousands rally for Israelis held in Gaza as families blast government inaction
In Beersheba, father of slain soldier Hadar Goldin says leadership ‘has taken us to the polls three times but hasn’t done a thing’ to bring back Hadar, Oron Shaul or Abera Mengistu
By ToI Staff
Leah Goldin (r), mother of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, and Zehava Shaul, mother of late Israeli soldier Oron Shaul, whose bodies are held by Hamas in Gaza, seen at a press conference ahead of the cabinet meeting outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, August 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 2, 2020, 4:38 am
Mother of slain soldier held in Gaza charges PM doing more for pardoned convict
Leah Goldin asks why Netanyahu is not expending the same effort for her son and others held by Hamas as he did to free Naama Issachar from Russian jail
By ToI Staff
August 30, 2019, 4:23 pm
LISTEN: Introducing ‘People of the Pod,’ a new podcast by ToI and AJC
Episode #1: Leah and Simcha Goldin on the fight to bring their soldier son’s remains home; an in-depth look at the status of Israeli women with activist Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
By ToI Staff
Zehava Shaul (center), mother of Oron Shaul, with supporters and family members protest outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence on August 9, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 9, 2019, 4:01 pm
Mother of soldier killed in Gaza war says PM doing ‘nothing’ to return his body
Zehava Shaul says she will never give up efforts to bring home Oron’s body for burial, tells Netanyahu ‘you can’t run from this… Wherever you go I will follow’
By ToI Staff
Leah Goldin, right, and her husband Simcha Goldin and other family members and supporters gather outside the state memorial ceremony for Operation Protective Edge at Mount Herzl on July 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
August 1, 2019, 12:58 am
Five years on, mother of soldier slain in Gaza still fighting for son’s remains
Leah Goldin says 2014 Gaza war won’t end until bodies of her son Hadar and fellow soldier Oron Shaul are able to receive proper burials
By Marcy Oster
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