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6 | AUGUST 22 • 2024
J
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essay
My Visit to Hostage Square
B
ring Them Home Now,” a
plea for the world to remem-
ber each and every hostage
kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, has
become an integral part
of the fabric of Israeli
life.
The
BringThemHomeNow.
com website and
campaign was created
to keep the hostages
front and center on a
daily basis. Its website states that the
Hostage and Missing Families Forum
“was established within 24 hours of
the horrific terror attack by Hamas
on Israel on Oct. 7” (in which about
1,200 innocent civilians were mur-
dered and over 240 taken hostage).
Laser-focused on the hostages, the
volunteer-based forum “offers fami-
lies holistic support and professional
assistance and advances the ongoing
efforts through all channels, locally,
regionally and globally, to bring the
hostages and the missing back home
to their loved ones.” On the website,
you’ll find pictures and stories about
each hostage, along with ways you
can help.
As I witnessed during my recent
trip to Israel, this campaign has
succeeded in making a tremendous
impact. When you enter or leave
Ben Gurion Airport, you are greeted
with pictures of the hostages. You see
posters of the hostages and yellow
ribbons everywhere in the country.
They line the streets and are dis-
played on the outside of commercial
buildings and people’s homes.
Yellow ribbons adorn the jackets
of newscasters. Female performers
on television sport yellow fingernails.
The hostages and their family mem-
bers have become familiar faces to
everyone in Israel.
Family members have encamp-
ed and created Hostage Square, a
public gathering place on Tel Aviv’s
open plaza, located in front of the
Tel Aviv Art Museum, between the
Opera House, Cameri Theatre and
the library. The space, always staffed
with family members and volunteers,
has become their meeting place, as
well as the location to boost public
awareness and protest.
Every Saturday evening after
Shabbat ends, hundreds of thou-
sands of Israelis gather on Hostage
Square for a peaceful protest rally.
Beverly Kent
Goldenberg
PURELY COMMENTARY
A symbolic heart
wrapped in chains
Hostage Square
in Tel Aviv