Israeli peace activist's son awaits news of mother's release from Hamas

Yonatan Zeigen looked down at his phone. There was a missed call from the Israel Defense Forces’ hostage liaison unit. Then came a flurry of news alerts: Hamas was preparing to release two female hostages in Gaza for “humanitarian reasons.” It had been 16 days since his mother, Vivian Silver, a 74-year-old Canadian Israel i peace activist , had vanished from her duplex in Kibbutz Beeri. Militants slaughtered many of her neighbors, set fire to their homes and kidnapped those they didn’t kill.

The Israeli government believed Vivian was among the 242 people Hamas had dragged back to Gaza. Now, finally, there appeared to be movement on her case. The military liaison officer texted Yonatan: “I’m sure you’ve heard the new

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