hostages

‘And now — the hostages’: Families and advocates for the missing want Israel to refocus on their plight

Advocates worry that an explosion of hostilities with Iran was distracting from what some believe should be their country’s singular mission.

Israeli forces retrieve bodies of 3 hostages from Gaza

Ofra Keidar, Jonathan Samerano and Staff Sgt. Shay Levinson were killed on or about Oct. 7, 2023.

Teen Fellowship Ideas

Jewish teens like me sent a message after the Run for Their Lives attack: We will not cower.

A JTA Teen Fellow from Long Island describes the defiant crowd that turned out for a hostages solidarity walk after a frightening attack in Boulder, Colorado

United States

The abuse of Israeli hostages shocks a ‘bring them home’ movement that feeds on hope

Ideas

‘Bring them home’ means different things to Israelis and American Jews

Israel

4 more hostages held in Gaza are dead, Israeli army announces

Politics

17 relatives of Americans taken hostage by Hamas are attending Biden’s State of the Union address

Israel

What we know — and don’t yet — about the hostage deal to release Israelis held by Hamas

Israel

30K Israelis join families of hostages in Jerusalem rally as reports swirl about a release deal

Pedestrians watch police outside a bank in Le Havre, France, where a hijacker has taken several hostages demanding the freedom of Palestinians in Israel on Aug. 7, 2020. (Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images)

Global

Hostage-taker at French bank demands Israel free Palestinian children ‘unjustly imprisoned’

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