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“The contrast between the bon vivant Hersh that the country has come to know in the last 200 days through photos and the thin, scared, and dour Hersh in Wednesday’s video was startling”

JPOST Clip of Hersh Goldberg-Polin evokes joy and heartbreak throughout the country Editorial Board April 26, 2024 The video clip of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, which dominated social media channels on Wednesday night, achieved the nearly impossible task of simultaneously evoking joy … Continue reading

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Rachel Goldberg: “I feel like we’re pawns in a game. Or maybe it’s theater”

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, is one of many young people taken hostage by Hamas during an incursion into Israel that killed more than 1,300 others. His parents Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, Americans who moved to Israel more than a decade … Continue reading

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Childhood friends Aner Shapira and Hersh Goldberg-Polin went to a party the night of October 6, a gathering of peace-loving youth…

NEW YORK POST Chilling video shows Israeli soldier toss grenades back at Hamas terrorists, saving several people Yaron Steinbuch November 14, 2023 Chilling newly released video appears to show the moment a heroic off-duty Israeli soldier tossed hand grenades back … Continue reading

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Rachel Goldberg begged world leaders to keep fighting for the release of her son Hersh and the others held in Hamas captivity

KVELLER This Hostage’s Mother’s Speech at the U.N. Is Heartbreaking and Necessary Lior Zaltzman October 25, 2023 I keep thinking I might be done crying since October 7, and then I realize, as more and more news keeps pouring in, … Continue reading

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As the buses carrying family members to bury Shapira at Mount Herzl move down the street, neighbors and friends follow slowly, singing Hatikvah softly

TIMES OF ISRAEL Neighbors gather on street for Jerusalem family burying son Jessica Steinberg October 13, 2023 Hundreds of neighbors in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Arnona are gathering with Israeli flags to accompany the family of Anar Elyakim Shapira, as … Continue reading

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The assault on Israeli towns was as cruel as Hamas could make it, and every agonizing minute was broadcast to Israelis as a message and a humiliation. Now comes the Israeli answer

TIMES OF ISRAEL A wounded, weakened Israel is a fiercer one Haviv Rettig Gur October 8, 2023 …The footage from Saturday, the snuff videos shared gleefully by Hamas supporters, including in some Western far-left circles, weren’t an aberration. Hamas gunmen … Continue reading

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