Hamas Took Her, and Still Has Her Husband

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence. It’s been nearly six months since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, when militants took more than 200 hostages into Gaza. In a village called Nir Oz, near the border, one quarter of residents were either killed or taken hostage. Yocheved Lifshitz and her husband, Oded Lifshitz, were among those taken. Today, Yocheved and her daughter Sharone tell their story. Guest: Yocheved Lifshitz, a former hostage. Sharone Lifshitz, daughter of Yocheved and Oded Lifshitz.

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0:00.0	I can't remember the word but do you know the kind of fungi connection between trees in the forest?
0:12.0	How do you call it my my mycelium you know we are just I just somehow feel that we are connected by this kind of infinite wave of mycelium. We are so bound together and I don't think we really realize that until all this happened.
0:38.6	It's quite hard to explain to me in a sense
0:42.3	because you know some people would say oh I'm so hoping your father will come and
0:48.0	then everything will be okay and it's very hard to explain that really this group of people decided to, you know,
0:59.0	bring us up together, share all their resources over 75 years, grow into each other, fight endlessly
1:09.5	with each other, love and hate each other, but somehow stay together and their children will then meet
1:17.0	and marry and make grandchildren.
1:19.5	And there's so many levels of connection.
1:23.6	And I'm sitting here in the room
1:26.5	and I see their faces, some of them, you know.
1:30.4	And we are incredibly, it's hard to explain how much these people are missing from our kind of forest ground.
1:45.0	From the New York Times,
1:50.0	from the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.
1:59.5	It's been nearly six months since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th and took more than 200 people into
2:05.4	Gaza.
2:07.4	One of the hardest hit places was a village called Near Oz, near the border with Gaza.
2:14.0	One quarter of its residents were either killed or taken hostage.
2:19.0	Yeuhevedlievshitz was one of those hostages.
2:23.2	And so was her husband, Oded Lefchitz.
2:27.3	Yulchavid was eventually released.
2:30.3	O'Ded was not.
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