Finally!
The time has finally come – we can finally embrace Hadas and show her how much we care about her fate. Through the project with which we support Israeli orphans, we got to know her (via the Forum for Hostages and Missing Persons) and have been in contact for months. But without getting to know each other personally, there was a certain abstractness about everything. Today, on April 8, 2025, we meet in the morning in a café in Kiryat Gat, the place where she was evacuated to. It is oppressively hot, the air is full of desert dust.
Hadas has come without her children and has chosen this neutral location for a first face-to-face meeting. She did not come alone, but together with Sigal, who shares a similar fate (which I will also write about later). Both lost their homes in Nir Oz, their neighborhood, their community and their loved ones in the Hamas massacre. Everything they had built up, all the pillars of their lives and all their plans...
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