n. Oct. 7, the terrorist group Hamas abducted at least 
251 people from Israel. According to Israel Defense 
Forces, 154 have been released by Hamas, rescued by 
the IDF, recovered dead or killed in encounters.
The majority of the released hostages — 105 — were freed 
during a brief temporary cease-fire in November, in exchange 
for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel; eight were 
rescued alive in IDF operations.
As of last week, at least 97 people taken hostage on Oct. 7 
are believed to still be in Gaza, with around a third of them, 
or at least 33 people, believed to be dead, according to the 
Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a volunteer-based 
organization focused on the safe return of the hostages. 
See above for the names of the missing as of Sept. 26. The 
staff of the Jewish News joins the Metro Detroit Jewish commu-
nity in praying for their safe return. 

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At least 97 people taken hostage by 
Hamas are still in Gaza.

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Tamir Adar• Muhammad Al-Atarash• Hisham Al-Sayed• Hamzah AlZayadni• Yosel AlZayadni• Liri Albag• Edan Alexander• 

Matan Angrest• Karina Ariev• Aviv Atzili• Sahar Baruch• Uriel Baruch• Ohad Ben Ami• Agam Berger• Gali Berman• Ziv 

Berman• Ariel Bibas• Kfir Bibas• Shiri Bibas• Yarden Bibas• Elkana Bohbot• Rom Braslavski• Itay Chen• Sagui Dekel Chen• 

Eliya Cohen• Nimrod Cohen• Amiram Cooper• Ariel Cunio• David Cunio• Evyatar David• Itzhak Elgarat• Ronen Engel• 

Daniella Gilboa• Guy Gilboa-Dalal• Meny Godard• Hadar Goldin• Romi Gonen• Ran Gvili• Gad Haggai• Judi Weinstein 

Haggai• Tal Haimi• Inbar Hayman• Maxim Herkin• Eitan Horn• Iair Horn• Tsachi Idan• Guy Illouz• Bipin Joshi• Ofer Kalderon• 

Segev Kalfon• Ofra Keidar• Bar Abraham Kupershtein• Eitan Levi• Shay Levinson• Naama Levy• Or Levy• Oded Lifshitz• 

Shlomo Mantzur• Eliyahu Margalit• Avera Mengisto• Omri Miran• Joshua Loitu Mollel• Eitan Abraham Mor• Gadi Moshe 

Mozes• Omer Neutra• Tamir Nimrodi• Yosef-Chaim Ohana• Alon Ohel• Avinatan Or• Dror Or• Daniel Oz• Daniel Peretz• 

Lior Rudaeff• Yonatan Samerano• Eli Sharabi• Yossi Sharabi• Oron Shaul• Omer Shem Tov• Tal Shoham• Idan Shtivi• Keith 

Samuel Siegel• Doron Steinbrecher• Itay Svirsky• Alexandre Sasha Troufanov• Ilan Weiss• Omer Wenkert• Yair Yaakov• 

Ohad Yahalomi• Arbel Yehoud• Arie Zalmanowicz• Matan Zangauker

Americans Still Being 
Held in Gaza

At least seven people with American citizenship 
remain in Hamas captivity, and at least three of 
them are believed to be dead, according to Israeli 
officials. Among those believed to still be alive 
are Keith Siegel, 65; Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36; Edan 
Alexander, 20; and Omer Neutra, 22. American 
hostages believed to be dead, whose bodies are 
being held in Gaza, are Itay Chen, 19; and married 
couple Judith Weinstein, 70, and Gadi Haggai, 73.

