Hostage

“I’m trying to understand how to do good rehab and help myself with this," former Gaza hostage Evyatar David told CNN on Wednesday.

The interview marked the first time the 25-year-old had spoken to international media about his experiences as a Hamas hostage following his abduction.

The remains and personal effects of IDF Sgt. First Class Yehuda Katz had been located and would be buried in Israel – 44 years after he disappeared in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.

Reuters reported last year that Rideout was seized by three unidentified men on his way to the airport in Niamey and taken to the western Tillaberi region of Niger.

Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai said, "The square became a center of solidarity, mutual responsibility, and an uncompromising demand: Bring them, all of them, home."

The Israel Festival event, titled “From Captivity to the Lawn: Stories and Songs,” drew 3,000 attendees, including bereaved families and other former captives.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

“I understood that surviving captivity is one thing. Truly recovering is another battle entirely,” David wrote in a social media post.

Shin Bet Chief David Zini visited YAMAM for the first time, reviewing joint counterterrorism operations, technological capabilities, and the unit’s past hostage rescue missions in Gaza.

At the center of the case was a narrow but decisive legal question: whether Shamriz had entered military service by the time he was abducted.