{"id":79702,"date":"2025-10-17T02:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/79702\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:28:16","slug":"released-hostage-i-have-merited-to-live-my-life-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/79702\/","title":{"rendered":"Released hostage: &#8216;I have merited to live my life anew&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday morning visited Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital, meeting with newly-released hostage Bar Kupershtein, who served in the IDF&#8217;s Nahal Brigade.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Accompanying Katz on the visit was Personnel Directorate chief Major General Dado Bar Kalifa.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Kupershtein told Katz about his time in Hamas captivity, and Katz thanked him for his heroic actions on the morning of the October 7 massacre, when he helped attendees at the Nova music festival and provided some of them with initial medical treatment, until he himself was kidnapped by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">During the visit, Kupershtein presented Katz with a bracelet bearing the words, &#8220;Always in the hands of the Creator of the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Concluding the visit, Katz stressed his commitment to bringing the bodies of deceased hostages to Israel for burial, noting that it is of top priority, alongside disarming Hamas and Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday morning visited Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital, meeting with newly-released hostage Bar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2900,29473,85,46,2723,43,22103],"class_list":["post-79702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hostages","tag-hostages-in-gaza","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-news","tag-swords-of-iron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79702","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=79702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}