Segev Kalfon explained, “Yes. I try to stay busy during the day. At night, when I get into bed and I’m by myself, I pull the covers up and the thoughts flood in. That’s where the real struggle lives. October 7. Everything I endured in captivity comes flooding back. I recall the times they took me out to be executed. Through divine providence, circumstances shifted, and went wrong in my favor. There’s this yellow container outside the festival, near the checkpoint, that stays fixed in my mind. Ultimately, it’s two years of agony. Not two days. Two years where every minute, every second, you exist in mortal danger. It’s permanently carved in.”
