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Board urges community to ‘adopt’ one of remaining hostages
‘We need to tell the stories of those who have been held captive for more than 600 days’
June 16, 2025 15:38
‘We need to tell the stories of those who have been held captive for more than 600 days’
June 16, 2025 15:38The Board of Deputies is urging communal organisations to “adopt” one of the 53 hostages who remain in Gaza.
In 2024, the Board launched the Adopt a Hostage scheme, and hundreds of communities around the country “adopted” one of those who were taken captive on October 7, with the aim of publicising their plight and supporting their families.
More than 600 days later, over 50 hostages are still in in Gaza, with around 20 of them believed to be alive.
The Board of Deputies, which is the cross-communal representative body of the British Jewish community, said they were calling on all synagogues and Jewish organisations “to ensure that they tell the stories of the captives”.
Board of Deputies president Phil Rosenberg said: “The hostages are constantly in our thoughts. For more than a year, we have been holding weekly vigils at Westminster whenever Parliament is sitting and led national campaigns around Pesach, Chanukah and Succot. We need help to bring their individual stories into the national consciousness and that’s where communities can help. Let’s do everything in our power to assist their families and to bring the hostages back home.”
If your community would like to adopt a hostage, please email sara.radivan@bod.org.uk
Hostages still in Gaza
Ariel Cunio (27)
Alon Ohel (23)
Eitan Horn (38)
Avinatan Or (31)
Elkana Bohbot (35)
Evyatar David (24)
Bipin Joshi (24)
Ziv Berman (27)
Gali Berman (27)
David Cunio (34)
Eitan Mor (24)
Maxim Herkin (36)
Omri Miran (47)
Bar Abraham Kupershtein (23)
Guy Gilboa-Dalal (23)
Nimrod Cohen (20)
Matan Zangauker (25)
Tamir Nimrodi (20)
Matan Angrest (22)
Segev Kalfon (27)
Rom Braslavski (21)
Yosef-Haim Ohana (24)
Itay Chen (19) - U.S. Citizen
Eliyahu Margalit (75)
Eitan Levi (52)
Sahar Baruch (24)
Ilan Weiss (56)
Ofra Keidar (70)
Joshua Luito Mollel (21)
Tal Haimi (41)
Arie Zalmanowicz (85)
Ran Gvili (24)
Dror Or (48)
Tamir Adar (38)
Ronen Engel (54)
Inbar Hayman (27)
Jonathan Samerano (21)
Guy Iluz (26)
Asaf Hamami (41)
Lior Rudaeff (61)
Muhammad Al-Atarash (39)
Meny Godard (73)
Omer Neutra (21) - U.S. Citizen
Yossi Sharabi (53)
Shay Levinson (19)
Daniel Oz (19)
Daniel Perez (22)
Uriel Baruch (35)
Sontia Ok’Krasari (30)
Sontisek Rintalk (43)
Amiram Cooper (85)
Idan Shtivi (28)
Hadar Goldin (23)