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      <title>Advocacy or politics? How hostage rallies evolved into anti-government hate fests</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Judith Segaloff]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Calls to free the captives once united Israelis, but as the war dragged on, weekly protests in Tel Aviv morphed into bitter political battlegrounds.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hostage families demand pause in Gaza peace plan until return of last captive's body</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hamas "knows the location of every hostage and is using this information as a bargaining chip," the NGO said.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump welcomes freed Israeli hostages, praises them as heroes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Members of the delegation stressed that their mission would continue until the remains of the last captive are returned home for burial.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:09:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Freed captive moves crowd at Hostages Square</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Alon Ohel, who partially lost his sight when he was abducted on Oct. 7, 2023, played a song on the piano which became synonymous with the campaign to free him.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Slain Israeli hostages Cooper and Baruch laid to rest</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After their bodies were returned and identified, slain Israeli hostages Amiram Cooper, 84, and Sahar Baruch, 25, were buried alongside family members.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:10:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bodies of three fallen hostages returned to Israel and identified</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Col. Asaf Hamami, Capt. Omer Maxim Neutra and Sgt. Oz Daniel were named as the deceased captives brought back from Gaza for burial.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:06:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The hostages found faith in the dark, reigniting global Jewish pride</title>
      <link>https://www.jns.org/opinion/bethany-mandel/the-hostages-found-faith-in-the-dark-reigniting-global-jewish-pride</link>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bethany Mandel]]></dc:creator>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariella Noveck]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[In Israel and the Diaspora, Jews who had never thought of themselves as religious began lighting candles.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:03:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Freed Israeli hostages urge national unity during Herzog visit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA["In my conversations with them, one request kept repeating, touching and heartfelt: that we maintain unity. That we not allow disputes to dismantle what held us together in the most difficult moments," the president wrote.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:16:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel bids farewell to Nepali captive Bipin Joshi</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Friends, family and officials gathered near Ben-Gurion Airport to honor the agricultural student slain by Hamas in Gaza.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:26:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Freed hostage Emily Damari slams UK ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wiseman]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[The dual British-Israeli citizen and survivor of Hamas captivity called the decision “outrageous” and “blatant antisemitism.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:41:22 GMT</pubDate>
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