And that morning my son came home and he tells me, Mom, they told me at my Talmud

Torah school that our terrorist is going to be released.

No, this was a real blow because I wanted to be the one who told him, and I wanted to do it in a very, very careful way because, well, in the end, this is a kid who saw the knife, who saw the terrorist with his own eyes.

He'd recognize her on the street.

And he says to me, Mom, this is what they told me in the Talmud Torah.

Is it true?

Hey, listeners, it's Mishi.

So, as you know, we're continuing our series of wartime diaries, which is our attempt to collect slivers of life during these difficult days.

On Saturday, four hostages.

Noor Gamani, Shlom Ozyve, Al-Mog Irjian, and Andrei Kuzlov, were heroically rescued by the Israeli security forces and safely brought home, alive.

This is audio from the beach in Tel Aviv, where a lifeguard shared the news over the loudspeakers. Still, the al-Nehive, we're making of Irai of Tel Aviv-Jafo.

Still, there are 120 hostages who remain in Gaza, 43 of whom have already been declared dead. And the pressure to sign a deal that will bring them home is mounting from day to day. Such a deal, of course, has two sides.

We tend to focus on what we stand to get.

In other words, the hostages.

To some, to many, that's really all that matters.

But there are also those who emphasize the other side, what we'd be forced to give,

the price we'd need to pay, the people we'd need to release. And our episode today brings us that

part of the story. Moriah Cohen is 29 years old. She and her family are part of the small Jewish settlement of Shima'an a Taddik, inside the

predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jharach in East Jerusalem.

For years, this neighborhood has been a focal point of legal battles, demonstrations,

and violent clashes between Israelis and

Palestinians. Two and a half years ago, on December 8, 2021, Muria was stabbed right

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