There are moments when history seems to stop; when centuries of faith, suffering and endurance collapse into a single gesture. This week, one such moment arrived in Israel amid an extraordinary breakthrough for Middle East peace.

As President Donald Trump traveled to the region to oversee what he called a “historic” peace agreement between Israel and Hamas — a deal that would end two years of war and bring all remaining living hostages home — a more intimate miracle unfolded in a hospital room.

Inside that room, pale and fragile but alive, Yosef-Chaim Ohana — who had been held hostage in Gaza for 738 days — was reunited with his father. His father, kippah on his head, rushed forward, fell upon him, and through tears cried out: Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad —

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