Shalit drew, kept journal in captivity
Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit drew and kept a journal while being held by Hamas in Gaza.\n
Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit drew and kept a journal while being held by Hamas in Gaza.\n
Gilad Shalit has undergone surgery to repair wounds from his 2006 abduction.\n
A lawmaker from the haredi Orthodox Shas Party said Gilad Shalit should have spent his first Shabbat of freedom not at the beach but praying in synagogue.
Gilad Shalit’s release from more than five years of isolated captivity marked the end of a national trauma for Israel, but for the 25-year-old it\’s only the beginning of his road to recovery.
A week after Gilad Shalit returned to Israel after being held in captivity for more than five years in Gaza, things were getting back to normal at the Shalit family home — sort of.
Israeli President Shimon Peres visited Gilad Shalit at his home in northern Israel, the first Israeli official to visit since the soldier\’s return.
\”He who wrought miracles for our fathers, and redeemed them from slavery unto freedom, may he speedily redeem us, and gather our exiles from the four corners of the earth, even all Israel united in fellowship; and let us say, Amen.\” \”HaMakom y\’rachem ethkhem b\’tokh sh\’ar aveilei Tzion v\’Yrushalayim\” \”May G-d comfort you among all the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem\”
A would-be Palestinian suicide bomber freed by Israel in the prisoner swap for soldier Gilad Shalit told cheering schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip the day after her release Wednesday she hoped they would follow her example.
Gilad Shalit, whose skinny frame is the talk of Israel, took a morning stroll with his mother outside the family home in a leafy village in northern Israel, accompanied by police who formed a protective guard around him.
The United States has concerns about some of the 477 Palestinians Israel freed on Tuesday in exchange for an abducted Israeli soldier because they killed or injured U.S. citizens, a U.S. official said.