Released Abductee Tells Her Story

Abductee Merav Tal on Being in Captivity: "Every Minute is an Eternity"

After her stay in captivity, Merav Tal returned and was reunited with her children. Now she stands in front of the camera and tells about the difficult hours in captivity and the meeting with her partner's son, Yagil Yaakov, in the heart of Gaza.

(Courtesy: Keshet 12)

After 53 days in Hamas captivity, Merav Tal, who was staying at Kibbutz Nir Oz for the holiday with her partner Yair Ya'akov, who is still in Gaza, returned home. In a special episode of Uvda that will be broadcast tonight (Thursday), she tells how she dealt with her captors, and about the moment she met 13-year-old Yagil Yaakov, the son of her partner, in captivity.

(Courtesy: Keshet 12)

After returning to Israel, many abductees begin to speak out and tell about their time in captivity: "We were sure that they gave up on us, that now they want to win this war," said 17-year-old Agam Goldstein Almog, who was kidnapped with her mother Chen, and her two younger brothers, Gal and Tal, in an interview with Galei Tzahal. Her father Nadav and her older sister Yam were murdered in their home, in the first hours of the terrorist attack.

When asked what she knew in captivity about the fate of her father and sister, she replied: "We witnessed everything, but there was some kind of hope that it didn't happen. That we would return and my father would be waiting for us in a wheelchair. We already knew about Yam, but there was still some small hope about my father. But the radio there told us everything... we heard exactly what we needed to hear, that we are sorry about father and Yam and that's it." She shared that she dreamed about her father and sister during the nights of captivity.


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