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After 843 days, Israel stops its hostage clock and closes a painful chapter — NBC News

The clock had presided over a Tel Aviv square since shortly after the attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, when activists set its large LCD display to count every second until the hostages were freed.

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The clock was officially retired a day after Israeli soldiers recovered the body of Ran Gvili, a young police officer who was killed on Oct. 7 and whose body was that of the last remaining hostage in Gaza. Now, for the first time since 2014, there are no Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said.

Israel prepares to bury last Gaza hostage — AFP News

Grieving relatives of Ran Gvili gathered on Wednesday as Israel prepared to bury the last hostage returned from Gaza, marking the end of a painful national saga triggered by Hamas's 2023 attack.

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Israeli forces on Monday brought home the remains of Gvili, who was killed in action during Hamas's attack on October 7, 2023 which triggered the devastating war in Gaza.

Of the 251 hostages taken by militants on that day, Gvili's were the last remains held in the Palestinian territory.

 

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Israel's Image Revisited
Aaron David Miller

May 16, 2012 -- Writing in the Wall Street Journal this week on the
occasion of Israeli Independence Day, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren
penned a powerful op-ed on the erosion of Israel's image.

His conclusion: Israel's image has deteriorated in large part because of a
"systematic delegitimization of the Jewish state."

"Having failed to destroy Israel by conventional arms and terrorism," he
writes, "Israel's enemies alit on a subtler and more sinister tactic that
hampers Israel's ability to defend itself, even to justify its existence."
First, some full disclosure. I like and respect Michael Oren. He's a
remarkably talented historian, astute analyst, and able diplomat.
I also have no doubt that there are efforts to delegitimize Israel, that anti-
Semitism pervades some of the anti-Israel rhetoric, that Israel is one of the
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