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Nearly every day, Avital Dekel Chen sends a text message to her husband, Sagui. He was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 while she and their two young daughters hid in a safe room at their kibbutz in southern Israel. “Please come back home. Please hang in there a little longer,” Dekel Chen wrote in one message. Dekel Chen, 34, finds emotional solace in the daily WhatsApp messages to her husband, though she knows he won’t see the texts unless he is freed.
Every now and then, Beinin visits the websites for the Israeli news publications Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. He reads the names of everyone killed on Oct. 7. He reads their biographies, the accounts of their life’s work, the tributes from their loved ones. “I often find myself going to the page about Aviv,” Beinin said, “and I just touch base with that, with my thoughts.” Aviv, 49, ran the garage for agricultural machinery at Nir Oz. Beinin is not a religious man.
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