When was the last time you saw three newscasters holding back tears?

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Feb 9, 2025 · 2m

For those of us who didn’t hear the news until after Shabbat, it was an intense Saturday night. The three additional hostages, it turned out, had been released. But as we’d all become accustomed to seeing their faces on the hostages posters, the faces that we now saw when they actually left Hamas captivity were simply hard to believe.

Comparisons like these flooded Israeli social media:

The same image came to mind for everyone we spoke to — these men looked like Holocaust survivors.

Israelis were in tears. Israelis called for revenge. And then, most took a deep breath, and said, “Let’s get…