NEW YORK (PIX11) -- The Yeshiva University community came together in solidarity Sunday night to mark six months since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Sunday night’s event featured prayer, and the powerful words of those who experienced the worst of the violence.
Among those at Sunday’s event was Luis Hal, who was taken captive by Hamas and held for 129 days.
“Our family woke up on the 7th of October really to a different world,” said Edan Bagerano, Hal’s son-in-law, speaking on behalf of the family.
“When you are taken out of your house, barefoot in pajamas … the Hamas terrorists invading, shooting, breaking everything in your house, of course you feel fear,” said Bagerano, who also lives in Israel.
Hal and his family were eventually rescued by a special mission of the Israel Defense Forces and are now safely back together. Many, however, are not.
“It is so painful to think about,” said Yeshiva University President Ari Berman, who was in Jerusalem on Oct. 7. “Hamas has taken 134 hostages that we still have not heard from. There are people in captivity. We are distraught.”
“It is profoundly painful to think about the fact that America and the world has not used the full measure of its resources to free the hostages,” said Berman.
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