Elation and tears greet every new picture and video of returning hostages. A powerful combination of joy and catharsis overtakes us and the thousands gathered at Hostage Square in the heart of Tel Aviv.
It’s early October, the eve of the Simchat Torah holiday. It was on that day, two years earlier, that Hamas invaded the Jewish state, slaughtered more than 1,200 Israelis, and abducted another 250 — the vast majority of whom were women, children, and the elderly. Fittingly, under the terms of a cease-fire painstakingly negotiated by the Trump administration, this was the day that the murderous terror group would release the last of the 20 living Israelis it had been holding captive.
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