Shalom, everyone, and welcome to the Middle East and Beyond.

I'm Barry Stagner, coming to you from Southern California, and here as always, from the

Galilee in Israel, Amir Sarfadi, Amir, Shalom.

Shalom, Pastor Barry, not a dull moment here in Israel and in the Middle East, and have so much to talk about even on events of the last one hour.

Yeah, a lot going on. It seems like things are heating up again as far as not just newsworthy stories, but things related to Bible prophecy.

And you know, Amir, there is a lot of negative news that comes out of the Middle East, obviously.

But there's a positive thing that happens now and again.

And there's something developed in Iraq with a Princeton grad student who is of Israeli-Russian

heritage.

And maybe you can talk about how this kind of relieves some of the stress

that's going on over in Iraq between Israel and really the rest of the world,

the Western world, that is, by this release of this woman.

Held for some two years now.

Yeah.

So last night, President Trump announced, he was the first two announced, and after he did, the Iraqi Prime Minister did and the Israeli Prime Minister did as well.

President Trump basically said the following thing, and I'll read now from his tweet, I'm pleased to report that Elizabeth Zorkov, a Princeton student with sisters and American citizen, was just

released by Kata'b Hezbollah.

It's basically the battalions of Hezbollah and is now safely in the American embassy in Iraq.

And after being tortured for many months, I will always fight for justice,

never give up. Hamas, release the hostages now. And so that was President Trump. Elizabeth

Tzorkov, we prepared, by the way, that's Benjamin Netanyahu's one. Today, hostage Elizabeth

Tsurkhov and Israeli citizen was abducted in Iraq in March of 2023, was released.

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