Heritage Florida Jewish News - Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice

(JNS) — For U.S. Republican Senators Steve Daines and Rick Scott, the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre feels personal.

At this weekend’s Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Scott detailed to JNS a series of meetings he’s held with Israeli families affected by the tragedy.

“We put a big poster of all the hostages’ pictures in my office … two of the families’ kids went over to fight with the IDF and they were captured,” said Scott. 

He showed JNS a dog tag on a chain given to him by one of those families. In Hebrew, it read “Our heart is in Gaza,” and in Eng...