US First Lady Melania Trump engaged in a private meeting with freed American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel in the White House today (Wednesday). The First Lady\u2019s sit-down with Aviva Siegel in January 2025 sparked a series of events that ultimately led to Keith Siegel\u2019s liberation from Hamas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat first meeting with Aviva Siegel served as a catalyst to the events leading up to Keith\u2019s freedom. It was clear that day in New York City that Aviva Siegel\u2019s human spirit would move mountains to rescue her husband, Keith,” exclaimed First Lady Melania Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was deeply moved to hear from the First Lady about the meetings she held with my wife, Aviva, while I was in captivity, and about the strength and support she gave to the families of the hostages throughout that difficult journey,” Keith Siegel asserted.<\/p>\n
Aviva Siegel also participated in today\u2019s White House meeting, saying: \u201cI want to express my deepest gratitude to First Lady Melania Trump. Meeting again today feels profoundly full circle\u2026 I am endlessly grateful for Mrs. Trump\u2019s steadfast support over these painful two years.”<\/p>\n
During their initial encounter, Aviva Siegel gifted Mrs. Trump a handmade book about her husband Keith Siegel and the brutal events surrounding October 7, 2023. First Lady Melania Trump shared the handmade book and Keith Siegel\u2019s story with President Trump later that evening in January 2025.<\/p>\n
Keith Siegel further shared, \u201cI am grateful to the First Lady and to the President for their tremendous efforts to secure the return of the hostages, and my own return.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US First Lady Melania Trump engaged in a private meeting with freed American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29473,85,46,20401,43],"class_list":["post-274156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hostages-in-gaza","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-melania-trump","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}