Rachel Goldberg doesn’t know if what she’s doing will bring her son Hersh home. But she won’t stop trying.
In trying to free her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostages, Goldberg has spoken to the pope, Elon Musk, Joe Biden and more
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Fast Forward Families of American hostages meet with Biden in person for the first time
The relatives hope to keep the hostages front and center of discussion as Israel and Hamas continue to wage war
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Fast Forward ‘One Tiny Seed’ — A hostage’s mother penned a poem for ‘a woman in Gaza’
Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose 23-year-old son, Hersh, is being held by Hamas, read the verse as part of a stirring speech to the U.N. in Geneva
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Looking Forward ‘We need a miracle’: Lighting Hanukkah candles with the family of Israeli hostage Uriel Baruch
With the country at war, celebrating Hanukkah in Israel looks different this year
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Looking Forward ‘Overwhelmed with joy and sadness’: Freed hostages speak publicly for first time at Tel Aviv rally
Saturday night protests, a fixture of Israel's pro-democracy movement, have turned their focus to the hostages in Gaza
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News ‘Difficult, painful and complex’: Everything released hostages have said about their time in captivity
As more than 100 hostages were released from Gaza during a weeklong truce, they shared accounts of malnutrition, days spent in total darkness and physical abuse
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Fast Forward Only remaining teen hostages and Mia Shem, seen in Hamas hostage video, among 8 released on Thursday
The release means that Kfir and Ariel Bibas are the only Israeli children still known to be in Gaza. Their fate remains uncertain
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Culture Debate rages over whether a letter from an Israeli hostage to her Hamas captors is a fake. But does it matter?
Danielle Aloni's letter describing her captors' kindness is only the latest in a debate over morality in the war
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