Three years after the attack on Simchat Torah, there are few remnants of the hostage families’ encampment: the tunnel replica, a few yellow ribbons and a sign bearing the words “Remember 7.10.23.” ...

Ruby and Hagit Chen, parents of Itay Chen, a soldier killed and his body taken hostage to Gaza on October 7, 2023, gather with supporters at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square on Tuesday night, calling for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Itzik Gvili, father of murdered Gaza hostage St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili, speaks at Hostage Square, Tel Aviv, November 29, 2025.

HOSTAGE SQUARE, TEL AVIV — As Donald Trump arrived in Tel Aviv Monday to take a victory lap at the Israeli Knesset, in the streets of this traumatized city, it was a love fest for the American ...

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Tel Aviv residents watched with mixed emotions on Tuesday as trucks began removing some of the installations that have turned Hostage Square into the symbolic heart of Israel’s hostage vigil since the ...

Rabba Anat Sharbat, the unofficial “rabbi of Hostages Square,” wept as she recited the Shehechiyanu blessing after lighting the candles to mark the beginning of Simchat Torah holiday on Monday evening ...

Commuters in Times Square were confronted this week with a new digital billboard demanding the release of the final remaining hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili. “Hamas must release him now,” the billboard ...