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Hostage pins to be transformed into permanent memorial artwork

Rob Klein — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:59:10 +0000

Melbourne artist and curator Nina Sanadze has launched a national project to collect yellow hostage pins, with the aim of transforming them into a permanent artwork to be preserved and displayed in partnership with the Sydney Jewish Museum. The initiative grew out of Sanadze’s October 7 anniversary exhibition at Goldstone Gallery last year, which became […]

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‘All the abductees have been returned’: Israel confirms return of last hostage, Ran Gvili

Pesach Benson — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:01:10 +0000

After 843 days, the remains of the last Israeli missing from Hamas’s October 7 attack have been returned to Israel, the IDF announced on Monday. “After completing the identification process by the National Centre for Forensic Medicine in cooperation with the Israel Police and the Military Rabbinate, IDF representatives informed the family of the abducted […]

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Israeli ‘large scale operation’ to find last hostage

Associated Press — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:28:33 +0000

Israel says its military is conducting a “large-scale operation” to locate the last hostage in the Gaza Strip as the United States and other mediators pressure Israel and Hamas to move into the next phase of their ceasefire. The statement came as Israel’s cabinet met to discuss the possibility of opening the Gaza Strip’s key […]

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Top Israeli journo addresses AIJAC

J-Wire News Service — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:50:42 +0000

Veteran journalist Maayan Hoffman, currently Executive Editor at ILTV Israel News, a correspondent for The Media Line and a regular columnist for All Israel News and Ynet, recently addressed an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) media luncheon in Sydney on the regional state of play and developments in Israel after two years of war. Commenting on […]

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Ex-hostage twins attend first Maccabi Tel Aviv game since release

JNS — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:53:55 +0000

Gal and Ziv Berman, who endured 772 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, arrived on Sunday night at Bloomfield Stadium for a soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. and Beitar Jerusalem F.C., the first since before their abduction. The twin brothers, devoted fans of Maccabi, got on the pitch before kickoff, to the cheers […]

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‘Measure of comfort’ after return of slain soldier Itay Chen’s remains

Pesach Benson — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:48:09 +0000

The body of Staff Sgt. Itay Chen was identified on Wednesday morning after being returned from Gaza to Israel overnight. “The families of the hostages and the returned are embracing the family of Itay Chen at this time,” said the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. “Alongside the grief and the understanding that their hearts will […]

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Hamas again hands over remains that don’t belong to hostages

JNS — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 06:19:00 +0000

Hamas transferred to Israel the remains of three individuals which do not belong to any of the 11 slain hostages still held by terrorists in Gaza, Israel’s broadcaster Channel 13 reported on Saturday. The remains, which Red Cross intermediaries handed over to Israel overnight Friday, were examined by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in […]

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‘Very optimistic’ ceasefire agreement will hold, Vance says in Israel

JNS — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:32:15 +0000

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is “very optimistic” that the White House-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and the Hamas terror organisation will hold, the former Ohio senator said during a press conference in Israel on Tuesday. “What we’ve seen in the past week gives me great optimism that the ceasefire is going to hold,” Vance […]

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Kibbutz Nir Oz mourns Aryeh Zalmanovich and Tamir Adar

Pesach Benson — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:20:00 +0000

The remains of two fallen hostages returned from Gaza have been identified as Aryeh Zalmanovich and Tamir Adar on Wednesday morning, bringing closure to Kibbutz Nir Oz, where both hostages lived. “My father was a man who never asked for anything for himself, who loved his home and his land,” said Boaz Zalmanovich, Aryeh’s son, […]

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Netanyahu meets US envoys, Hamas hands over another body

Reuters — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:19:48 +0000

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and the US president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are visiting Israel to shore up a tenuous ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. US envoys have met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aiming to corral Israel and Hamas to get the Gaza Strip ceasefire plan back on track after an explosion of violence […]

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