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On February 21, 2025, a few hours before Omer Shem Tov was set to be released after some 500 days in captivity in Gaza, his mother Shelly shared a clip on her page featuring some moments of a Shabbat she had attended at a hotel in Jerusalem a year before.

“Nothing happens by chance: everything is from Him,” Shelly wrote. “Exactly one year ago, on the eve of the Shabbat featuring the weekly Torah portion of Mishpatim, we were invited to a Shabbat organized for hostage families.

“It was the first Shabbat in my life that I observed according to halacha [Jewish law],” she continued. “On that day, I took upon myself to keep Shabbat, and since then, I have kept Shabbat throughout the year. And more than I kept Shabbat, Shabbat kept me. And God willing, on this Shabbat, I will get to hug my Omer exactly one year later.”

Shem Tov was taken captive by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival with his friends Maya and Itay Regev on Saturday, October 7, 2023.

When the Regevs were released in the ceasefire agreement of November 2023, Itay, who had been kept with Omer, revealed that his friend had started to observe Shabbat as much as he could. Shem Tov would use a piece of toilet paper as a kippah head covering and avoided turning on the flashlight that was his only source of light on Friday nights. He also hoarded a half-bottle of grape juice they had once been given, taking a sip every week after reciting the Kiddush, which sanctifies the Shabbat, according to details Shem Tov himself shared in interviews after his release.

Although the Shem Tovs observed some Jewish traditions before Omer was kidnapped, up until that moment, the family had identified as secular. While Omer was in Gaza, the family in Israel increasingly adopted Jewish practices during the 17 months of his ordeal.

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06/30/2025

The Iranian regime was increasingly convinced in recent months that it would soon be able to destroy Israel. The “Destruction of Israel” clock in Tehran’s Palestine Square was not an exercise in bravado. It was a public countdown to what the ayatollahs believed was Israel’s imminent demise, at their hands. Along with dismay that Yahya Sinwar had failed to consult and coordinate with them before invading southern Israel on October 7, 2023, the regime drew encouragement from the success of that massacre, its apparent confirmation of Israel’s profound vulnerability, and the ongoing instability it had caused.

Israel’s elimination, the regime delightedly, and rationally, assessed, was truly at hand.

And the truth is, apocalyptic as this certainly sounds, the assessment was reasonable.

That is the sober, honest judgment of the military and security chiefs who told Israel’s political leaders in recent months that Israel had to go to war against Iran, preferably in June and certainly not much later. That the end of 2025 would be too late. That it was now or never. That Iran was a decision and a few weeks away from nuclear weapons. And that the regime’s exponentially growing ballistic missile capability was rapidly becoming an existential threat as well.

The political leadership listened. It was persuaded. It coordinated with the US administration.

And Israel indeed went to war. And saved itself.

Read more on Times Of Israel

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