An interview with Israel’s consul general in New York City.

Trump’s projected victory “offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.”

“It’s basically all the forest fires we would have had over 30 years in only seven months.”

“He told me that when he died, he wants us to remember him not with memorials but by doing things, by helping people,” said Gilanit Amar, whose son fell in battle in southern Israel on Oct. 7.

An interview with Louis Har, who spent 129 days in Hamas captivity after being taken hostage on Oct. 7.

“No form of hate can be fought by the subject of the hate alone,” says Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Israel’s envoy for combating antisemitism.

“Before I go to sleep, I think of them and hope that maybe I’d finally get a call to tell me they were rescued, We hope there will be a miracle.”

Freed hostages, relatives of captives and staff members work together to keep the hostage crisis at the center of the diplomatic and media discourse.

The images show Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy shortly after they were abducted from their base in Nahal Oz.

“We are showing Hamas that we are still fighting and we will continue to fight until they surrender,” said Tikva Forum co-founder Tzvika Mor, whose son Eitan is being held by Hamas.