Hostages Square

Later, she visited Kafar Aza.

one of the communities attacked by Palestinian terrorists, as well as the Nova Music Festival site and Hostage Square in Tel Aviv.

She listened to a festival survivor describe lying beside dead friends and to a young man desperate for his abducted brother to return.

She also described going underground with strangers during a missile warning and sharing their fear.

The last of the hostages, thankfully, coming home.

And I was in Hostages Square, you know, that evening.

And it was an incredibly memorable, joyous moment.

Through to Trump's 20-point peace plan statement.

And he was the one who played the piano.

The piano, a yellow piano, sat in Hostages Square.

It also sat in different places around the world for everyone to try and advocate for the hostages to come home.

Alon, thankfully, was among the last living hostages released from Gaza, and it was such a joyous, miraculous day.

For me, it was, I think, the most authentic moment of the film.

It's beautiful and it's so emotional.

I love, as you mentioned, Hostages Square, that you show also both rabbis speaking there.

And you can hear from those who gathered.

I'm Noah Levi.

As Israeli elections draw near, the families of October seventh victims and survivor groups are planning a major rally at Hostage Square on October twenty-fourth, just three days before the vote.

Their demand, the establishment of a state commission of inquiry to investigate the failures and assign responsibility for the events of that day.

The October Council, representing over one thousand five hundred bereaved families, former hostages, and survivors, has accused elements within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's circle of attempting to obscure the truth.

As Ruth Margalit wrote in The New Yorker about the deal's announcement, it was as though Israelis drew in a collective breath and then exhaled.

At Hostages Square, families of hostages, who have until now been restrained in their public relations, uh, reactions to a prospective agreement, allowed themselves to break down in tears of relief.

No words can capture this moment, only exhaling and tears.

We began the fall Chagim, the holidays, with the wordless primal cry of the shofar.

I am Perli Shachar, Perli Shachar being... a legendary journalist and activist, one of the leaders of Women Wage Peace.

But mostly you recognize a lot of people because you saw them speaking at those demonstrations every Saturday night in Hostage Square.

Oh, there's that hostage's brother or sister or mother or father or daughter or son.

And they occupy a space in your mind, these people who are so much a part of your life and about whom you know sometimes the most intimate stories Oh, she survived under a pile of bodies.

And we're seeing these images of protests across the country.

There was a protest today at Hostage Square, which has become famous for the anger that many of the hostage families felt, but there was wider anger in Israeli society.

about how this could have happened.

And there have been so many more questions in just the last few months, actually, Israeli journalists doing a lot of the work to ask serious questions about what Benjamin Netanyahu knew before the Hamas attack happened.