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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 620

Liri Albag

Former hostage Liri Albag is interviewed on Channel 12 on March 5, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)
May 25, 2025, 11:41 pm
Liri Albag detained for an hour at New York airport due to outdated system warning
JFK’s computers still had ex-hostage listed as captive, causing worry she was an imposter
By ToI Staff
Former Hamas hostages present their art exhibition at Ben Gurion Airport, April 27, 2025. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
April 27, 2025, 6:19 pm
Paintings by ex-hostages featured in new art exhibit at Ben Gurion Airport
11 former captives use art workshop to process emotions of captivity and independence; works shown at airport for a week, will be moved to NYC for Independence Day event
By ToI Staff
Freed captive Liri Albag speaks during a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, April 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
April 10, 2025, 2:22 am
Attacked online by PM’s backers, ex-hostage hits back: ‘Wish death upon Hamas, not me’
Liri Albag, who spent 15 months in Hamas captivity, decries ‘heartless, inhuman’ comments after she placed blame on Netanyahu for Oct. 7; he phones her, voices solidarity
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Liri Albag speaks during a rally calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, April 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 8, 2025, 12:25 am
Freed hostage gets wave of hate for saying Netanyahu to blame for Oct. 7
Kan pulls promo of interview at Liri Albag’s request, after pro-Netanyahu accounts call her ‘trash’ for pointing finger at the premier and saying he should ‘ask for forgiveness’
By ToI Staff
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
The cover of 'The Haggadah of Freedom' produced by the Hostages Forum for Passover 2025 with texts by hostage family members (Courtesy Hostages Forum)
April 4, 2025, 4:03 pm
Hostages’ families yearn and mourn in new Passover Haggadahs
‘I have to hold onto something that gives me hope,’ says hostage Nimrod Cohen’s mother, who illustrated a children’s Haggadah
By Jessica Steinberg
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
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 Liri Albag is interviewed on Channel 12 on March 5, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)
March 8, 2025, 2:15 pm
Liri Albag recalls Gaza ‘hell,’ pain of knowing those against hostage deal would ‘sacrifice’ her
Freed hostage, kidnapped on October 7 while serving as a surveillance soldier, says she set boundaries between her and her captors; modestly dismisses accounts of her bravery
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Liri Albag is interviewed on Channel 12 on March 5, 2025. (Screen capture/Channel 12)
March 6, 2025, 5:33 am
Liri Albag recalls entering ‘survival mode’ on Oct. 7: ‘Feels like one long nightmare’
In interview to be aired Friday, freed hostage soldier describes ‘evil and hatred in eyes’ of Hamas captors, who she remembers thinking ‘would slaughter us, shoot us one by one’
By ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) meets with former hostage soldiers (from left) Naama Levy, Agam Berger, Liri Albag, and Karina Ariev, February 14, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 14, 2025, 3:49 pm
IDF chief apologizes to freed surveillance soldiers for failing them on and before Oct. 7
Agam Berger, Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev tell Halevi of attack on Nahal Oz post, 15 months of captivity; chief of staff: ‘It was wrong to have not taken [your warnings] seriously’
By Emanuel Fabian
(L-R) Captivity survivors Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Liri Albag and Daniella Gilboa watch a concert in their honor at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, February 4, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 14, 2025, 12:51 pm
Hamas made surveillance troops watch torture videos of male hostages, says mother
Freed hostages’ mothers say daughters kept diaries during 477 days in captivity; one says she would’ve looked like emaciated captives released last week had she been set free earlier
By ToI Staff
The family of released hostage Agam Berger, with Agam on the far left, February 2025 (Courtesy)
February 13, 2025, 8:05 pm
Released hostage Karina Ariev’s sister says ex-soldier focused on Oct. 7 failure
Sasha Ariev talks about Karina’s desire to commemorate her friends killed at Nahal Oz, as Shlomi Berger, father of released hostage Agam talks about the desire for normalcy
By Jessica Steinberg
The five surveillance soldiers freed from Gaza on stage with singer Elai Botner on February 4, 2025, at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 5, 2025, 4:49 pm
Freed IDF soldiers celebrate release from hospital with singer Elai Botner
Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Liri Albag and Agam Berger sing and dance onstage before four of them head home for first time since returning from Hamas captivity
By Jessica Steinberg
Israelis protest for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv on February 1, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 3, 2025, 1:47 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 3: Day 486 – Sadism, cages, starvation: Released hostages speak
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren on US envoy Steve Witkoff’s take-charge attitude ahead of a crucial meeting with PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and released hostage testimonies
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Biranit Goren
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