President Isaac Herzog met with released Gaza hostage Omer Wenkert and his parents to discuss Omer’s experience in captivity and the challenges of recovery on Tuesday

“Your presence here is a message of hope—to encourage those still held captive, to cry out on their behalf, to pray, and to do everything possible to bring every one of them home, as soon as possible,” Herzog said.

Wenkert, who was held by Hamas for over a year after being kidnapped from a bomb shelter in Kibbutz Re’im following the Nova Music Festival Massacre and was released this past February, told the president that the hostages should not be treated as a political issue.

Omer expressed Israel's duty to return the hostages

“First and foremost, it is our duty—as a people and as a state—to bring all our people ba

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