Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Ofer Kalderon reunites with his children Rotem, Gaya, Erez and Sahar on Feb. 1, 2025. Erez and Sahar, who were also abducted on Oct. 7, 2023, were released in November 2023.
In his first media interview since his return to Israel, former captive Ofer Kalderon gave a harrowing account of being held hostage in Gaza, the trauma of being separated from his children and his meeting with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, whom the Israel Defense Forces later killed.
"You're alive physically, but you feel dead," he told journalist Yael Odem on Israeli Channel 12's "Ulpan Shishi" program aired on Friday night. "Everything you were before - erased."
Kalderon, 54, was freed, together with Yarden Bibas and Keith Siegel, on Feb. 1 after 484 days in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip....
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