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Yosef-Haim Ohana

Former hostage Yosef-Chaim Ohana arrives at his home in Kiryat Malachi, November 30, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
November 30, 2025, 5:11 pm
Freed hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana heads home from rehab, 6 weeks after release from Gaza
Surviving captive greeted by cheering students and drummers, says he dreamed of home in the two years he was held by terrorists
By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
Freed hostage Segev Kalfon speaks with Channel 12 news in an interview aired on November 1, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot)
November 2, 2025, 10:41 am
‘Because of Ben Gvir’: Freed hostage Segev Kalfon details vengeful torture in Gaza
Held by Hamas for 2 years, former captive recalls beatings, starvation, psychological torment; other ex-hostages have also linked abuse to actions of far-right minister
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana speaks in an interview with Channel 12 broadcast on October 28, 2025 (Screncapture)
October 29, 2025, 5:28 pm
‘I need to learn to be free’: Ex-hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana adapting to life after captivity
Ohana, who spent two years held in Gaza, recounts in first interview the horrors of being the only survivor of a group shot at by Hamas and his struggles to stay alive in Gaza
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
Hamas hostages Yosef-Haim Ohana and Elkana Bohbot appear in a Hamas propaganda video published by the terror group on May 10, 2025. (Screenshot)
May 24, 2025, 1:01 pm
‘An attempt to sow panic’: Israelis receive recorded calls of hostages pleading for help
Apparent spam calls use voice of Yosef-Haim Ohana from Hamas video released earlier this month; Hostages Forum say its members also received calls, stresses it is not behind them
By ToI Staff
Protesters hold signs with images of the hostages at a weekly anti-government protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, May 10, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
May 10, 2025, 11:03 pm
Hostages’ families warn of ‘lost opportunity of the century’ as Hamas airs new clip of captives
Amid rallies, Hostages Forum decries ruinous insistence on continuing war; in latest video, hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana says Elkana Bohbot tried to harm himself, refuses to eat or drink
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Hostages Yosef-Haim Ohana (left) and Elkana Bohbot seen in a Hamas propaganda video released on March 24, 2025. (Screenshot)
March 24, 2025, 11:30 pm
Hamas publishes propaganda clip featuring hostages Elkana Bohbot, Yosef-Haim Ohana
Both families clear publication of video showing gaunt captives pleading with freed hostages to speak out about horrible conditions in Gaza
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Yosef Haim Ohana, taken captive by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova desert rave on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
February 12, 2025, 3:27 pm
Family of hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana says it received evidence he is alive
Aunt says relatives fear for 24-year-old after seeing deplorable state of returning captives, amid accounts of torture and starvation: ‘There are limits to a person’s strength’
By ToI Staff
Yosef-Haim Ohana, 23, taken captive by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova desert rave on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
November 14, 2023, 9:02 pm
Yosef-Haim Ohana, abducted from Supernova rave, released from Gaza after 738 days
Bartender helped wounded at rave before being taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023
By ToI Staff
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