I went to Hostage Square in Tel Aviv for the first time since the war began and regretted not coming sooner. The square sits in front of the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts, surrounded by the bustle of Israel’s coastal metropolis; everywhere you turned were the signs of the fight to bring the hostages home.
For days on end, and especially every Shabbat evening, the families and friends of hostages, as well as the general public, gather to raise their voices, demanding government action. After some hostages were released, they themselves came to speak on stage to demand the same: “Bring them home now!”
My initial purpose in visiting the square was to report how the people were feeling after more than 15 months of war, with over 70 hostages still in captivity. When I got there, it was empty – there were different types of tents – selling hostage awareness items such as t-shirts and yellow ribbon pins, a row of small tents representing Kibbutz Be’eri, Kibbutz Nachal Oz, the kibbutzim movement, and the Nova Festival. Each tent...
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