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The hostage return: images sacred and somber

Today, one haunting image and a brief video.

We’ll come back to the video above, which is a clip share by Amit Segal, a highly regarded Israel journalist. Segal shared it on his X feed — it’s a clip of his comments on Israeli TV on Sunday, the day that the first three hostages of this deal were freed.

But first, a haunting drawing.

A day or two after the hostages returned home, this image by Moshe Shapira, the father of Aner Shapira, z’l, started appearing everywhere on my social media feed.

If you don’t recall the details of Aner’s bravery in throwing grenades back at the terrorists at the…

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