Itai Anghel interviews Meirav Tal, who was kidnapped from her home in Nir Oz and was held in a dark room for 53 days. Along with Ada Sagie as a roommate, they were the first women to be kidnapped into Gaza on that dreadful Saturday, October 7. Thanks to Meirav's outspoken personality, she has befriended her captors.
In this piece, she relives the day she was captured, and her experiences in the 53 days she was held under Hamas in the bombarded Gaza. The entire piece is accompanied by touching reenactment illustrations by Lena Guberman, a well-known Israeli artist.
(Itai Anghel, 26', 21/12/2023)
Up Next in October 7 War Series
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Facts | Episode 5, Orthodox Ambulance
Uvda profiles an ambulance team of three observant Jews who responded immediately to the first rocket alarms on that fateful Saturday (Sabbath), saving a multitude of lives. Unable to turn on their radio for religious reasons - so with no forewarning of what they were heading into - they repeated...
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Facts | Episode 6, How Nir Am Was Saved
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Facts | Episode 7, Back to Gaza
Itai Anghel returns to Gaza with the GIVATI's Reconnaissance Unit, that lost three of its men at Operation Protective Edge in 2014. One of which was Hadar Goldin, whose body is still held by Hamas. The 20 something troops are now in their 30's, and left their lives, careers, and families behind, ...
