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Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Nov 10, 2025 · 1m

A brief focus on memory today. Three vignettes:

ELEVEN YEARS

Hadar Goldin z’l has been returned to Israel. More than eleven years after he was killed in the 2014 conflict with Hamas and his body was kidnapped into Gaza, his parents and his family have some sort of closure. Not the closure we wish they had, not the sort of closure we were blessed to celebrate with other families just a few weeks ago, but still, closure.

All our many flaws notwithstanding, I still think that Israel’s unique in many ways, including its being a place where the return of a single body can be an issue that attracts…