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Rom Braslavski

Thousands of runners take part in the annual Jerusalem Marathon near the Old City walls in Jerusalem, April 17, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 17, 2026, 12:23 pm
War-delayed marathon-less Jerusalem Marathon takes over capital amid ceasefire
Freed hostage Rom Braslavski helps kick off 10km race, after full marathon scrapped due to sweltering weather conditions
By ToI Staff
The clock in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv stops counting on January 27, 2026, after the return of final hostage Ran Gvili. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 27, 2026, 10:03 pm
After 843 days, 12 hours, 6 minutes, Hostages Square clock goes dark with Ran Gvili’s return
Emotional Tel Aviv ceremony, heavy with symbolism, commemorates end of digital count-up marking hostages’ time in Gaza after return of final captive’s body
By Stav Levaton
Former hostage Rom Braslavski speaks to the media as he enters the Tel Aviv police station to give testimony on an alleged assault he suffered in the city, January 21, 2026. (Screenshot/Ynet)
January 21, 2026, 5:19 pm
Ex-hostage Rom Braslavski gives police testimony on alleged assault outside club
Former captive tells media that singer Nasrin Qadri’s boyfriend, whom he accuses of assault in Tel Aviv, was in a drug and alcohol-fueled frenzy, beat him like a ‘Hamas activist’
By ToI Staff
Rom Braslavski on his way back to Israel after two years in captivity in Gaza, October 13, 2025. (Government Press Office)
January 18, 2026, 1:14 pm
Ex-hostage Rom Braslavski allegedly assaulted outside Tel Aviv club
Boyfriend of singer Nasrin Qadri to be questioned by cops over incident; ex-captive’s mother warns that former hostages may seem okay, but are in ‘difficult post-traumatic state’
By ToI Staff
Freed hostage Rom Braslavski speaks at the "Atreju" conference of the Fratelli D'Italia party in Rome, on December 7, 2025. (Screenshot via alanews on YouTube)
December 8, 2025, 9:34 am
Former hostage retells October 7 horrors at event of Italy’s ruling party
Two months after his return from captivity, Rom Braslavski gets warm welcome at right-wing Fratelli D’Italia’s annual conference in Rome, at invitation of premier Giorgia Meloni
By ToI Staff
Elad Or, brother of deceased hostage Dror Or, speaks at a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on November 8, 2025. (Lior Rotstein/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
November 9, 2025, 2:29 am
‘Emotional rollercoaster’: At rally, dead hostage’s brother laments month-long wait for body
Freed captives say everyone must return; Rom Braslavski says he saw Hostages Square on TV in Gaza, longed to get there; Golan: Anti-government movement to ‘take it up a notch’ against PM
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Ex-hostage Rom Braslavski speaks to Channel 13's "Hazinor" program in an undated interview broadcast on November 6, 2025. (Screenshot, Channel 13)
November 7, 2025, 12:17 pm
Freed hostage says captors joyfully tortured, whipped him repeatedly during captivity
Rom Braslavski says that after months, he begged guards to let him starve to death; recounts escaping binds to cook pasta; says he’s struggling with recovery, is terrified he’ll ‘go insane’
By ToI Staff
Rom Braslavski on his way back to Israel after two years in captivity in Gaza, October 13, 2025. (Government Press Office)
November 6, 2025, 8:24 am
‘I was torn apart, dying’: Rom Braslavski says captors sexually assaulted, tortured him
‘It was sexual violence, and its main purpose was to humiliate me,’ ex-hostage says. ‘I’d say to myself: ‘I survived another day in hell. Tomorrow I’ll wake up to another hell”
By ToI Staff
Yosef-Haim Ohana arrives at a hospital following his release from two years of captivity in Gaza, October 13, 2025. (Shauli Landner/Government Press Office)
October 15, 2025, 11:36 pm
Handcuffed, caged, thrown in a pit: Hostages’ families describe two years of hell
‘The road for recovery is going to be a very long one’: Families of freed captives share harrowing details of their time in Gaza, from starvation to psychological torture
By Diana Bletter, Jessica Steinberg, Rossella Tercatin and Nava Freiberg
The 20 living hostages released on October 13, 2025: First row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from let: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Rom Braslavski, Gali Berman, Ziv Berman. Third row, from left: Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Final row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Omri Miran.
October 11, 2025, 2:46 pm
The final 20 living hostages released from Gaza
First phase of Trump’s Gaza deal sees return of 20 living hostages; bodies of 28 others are also supposed to be returned
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Families of hostages and supporters march from the Knesset to the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 3, 2025, 9:08 pm
Hostages’ families, supporters rally outside Netanyahu’s residence after march from Knesset
Murdered hostage’s daughter says if PM ‘doesn’t bring them home, we will’; protesters briefly block roads at entrance to Jerusalem, as academics hold demonstration outside Supreme Court
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
A massive crowd marches to Tel Aviv's Hostages Square for a rally calling for a deal to release the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza on August 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 26, 2025, 11:17 pm
Large crowds fill Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for rally urging deal to free captives
Hostage’s father says, ‘I don’t want to receive my boy in a bag’; protesters block several major highways, hundreds march outside PMO as Netanyahu convenes security cabinet
By Charlie Summers, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Protesters hold posters of the hostages in front of a still image taken from a Hamas video of hostage Evyatar David, on August 2, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/ Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
August 5, 2025, 3:58 am
Cousin of hostage Evyatar David: ‘Don’t need a degree’ to know he’s on brink of death
Matan Eshet, a first cousin of the Hamas captive, describes family’s anguish at seeing propaganda video of their loved one in skeletal state
By Jessica Steinberg
Still images of hostages Ram Braslavski (left) and Evyatar David from Hamas propaganda videos, cleared for publication by their families in August 2025. (Composite screenshot)
August 4, 2025, 11:25 pm
Medical report: Hostages face ‘immediate risk of death’ from ‘systematic starvation’
Report from Hostages and Missing Families Forum comes after videos show Rom Braslavsky and Evyatar David looking emaciated, says they’ve drastically lost weight
By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
Protesters hold posters of the hostages in front of a still image taken from a Hamas video of hostage Evyatar David, on August 2, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/ Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
August 4, 2025, 9:31 pm
Holocaust survivors say latest hostage videos recall their condition in the camps
‘These images take me back to those dark days – to the hell, the hunger, the orphanhood, and the fear,’ one survivor says of the videos of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski
By JTA and ToI Staff
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