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Former captive and social psychologist Gabriela Leimberg at the first conference of 255 – The Hostages and Their Families Organization in November 2025 at the Peres Center in Jaffa (Courtesy)
January 11, 2026, 10:55 am
As hostage-deal lobby disbands, a new group forms to home in on long road to recovery
With almost everyone out of Gaza, “255 – The Hostages and Their Families Organization” takes up mission of addressing unmet needs of those abductedon October 7 and their families
By Jessica Steinberg
Released hostage Ofer Calderon, top left, reunites with his children Rotem, Gaya, Erez and Sahar on February 1, 2025. Erez and Sahar were also abducted on October 7, 2023 and were freed in November 2023. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
July 5, 2025, 10:12 pm
Friends of ‘abandoned’ ex-hostage Ofer Calderon raise NIS 3 million in a day to help him rebuild life
Dad-of-4 has severe emotional distress, can’t earn a living after his Nir Oz carpentry shop was destroyed; campaign launched by his cycling group: ‘Can’t watch him wither before our eyes’
By ToI Staff
Released hostage Ofer Calderon gestures during an interview broadcast on Channel 12, July 4, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
July 5, 2025, 10:48 am
Freed hostage Ofer Calderon recounts trauma of learning 2 children also captive in Gaza
In first interview since release in Feb., recalls how he spent just 3 hours above ground in Gaza, learned only 2 weeks before his release that his son had survived Oct. 7
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
Freed hostage Ofer Calderon speaks with the Kan public broadcaster in an interview aired on March 6, 2025. (Kan screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 9, 2025, 2:53 am
Ex-hostage Ofer Calderon, an avid cyclist, says riding his bike again ‘is freedom’
At national cycling championships, where he was guest of honor, Calderon calls for release of remaining hostages, says they feel ‘the light at the end of the tunnel has gone out’
By ToI Staff
Released hostage Ofer Calderon, top left, reunites with his children Rotem, Gaya, Erez and Sahar on February 1, 2025. Erez and Sahar were also abducted on October 7, 2023 and were freed in November 2023. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
February 15, 2025, 9:21 am
Two weeks after his release, former hostage Ofer Calderon hospitalized with pneumonia
Calderon returns to Sheba a week after discharge, following flu complications, family says, adding he’s in good condition and had Shabbat dinner with brother and sister-in-law
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators protest in Tel Aviv, for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, on February 10, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
February 11, 2025, 12:00 am
Protesters block Tel Aviv highway, demanding Israel ‘not endanger’ hostage deal
Yarden Bibas’s sister says he ‘holds onto hope’ he’ll be reunited with family; Ofer Calderon says conditions of his captivity worsened, became ‘brutal’ after November 2023 truce
By ToI Staff and Noam Lehmann
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video statement from his office, February 1, 2025. (Screenshot/PMO)
February 1, 2025, 11:50 pm
Welcoming hostages’ return, PM pledges to ‘achieve all war goals’
Herzog says nation ‘deeply concerned for the fate of our beloved Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas’; Ben Gvir demands resumption of war to ‘destroy our enemies’
By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman
Yarden Bibas is seen on an IDF helicopter on his way to a hospital in central Israel on February 1, 2025, after his release from Hamas captivity. (Israel Defense Force)
February 1, 2025, 8:40 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 1: Day 484 – 2 freed men were hugged by their kids; Yarden Bibas was not
Editor David Horovitz on a tumultuous day of Gaza hostage releases that sees the nation united in support of a family that may never be the same
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
Yarden Bibas embraces his father Eli and his sister Ofri at an IDF facility near Re'im after his release from 484 days in Hamas captivity, February 1, 2025. (Screencapture/Israel Defense Forces)
February 1, 2025, 5:03 pm
As Yarden Bibas is released, relief, dread, and evidence that Hamas is reviving
As the deal progresses, and Netanyahu readies for crucial talks with Trump, Israel’s twin war goals — bringing home all the hostages and removing Hamas from power in Gaza — remain as hard to reconcile as ever
By David Horovitz
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