More than 11 years after his son, Lt. Hadar Goldin , 20, was killed and abducted by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge, Professor Simcha Goldin says the State of Israel still has a moral and national duty to bring him home.

“Hadar is the first hostage,” Goldin told the Hebrew national religious weekly Shvi’i in an interview due to be published on Friday. “My son has been held in Gaza for 4,116 days—11 years and three months. We won’t stop until he returns.”

Goldin, a historian at Tel Aviv University, has been a central figure in the struggle to bring back the bodies of Hadar and Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul , 20, held by the terrorist group since 2014. Shaul’s body was retrieved by the IDF from Gaza on Jan. 19 and returned to Israel for burial.

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