Former U.S.-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel shares his story with Joel Rosenberg on this episode of The Rosenberg Report.
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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Former Hamas Hostage Speaks Out | The Rosenberg Report | July 2, 2025
- Tonight on the rosenberg report.
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- What would it be like to spend 484
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- Days held hostage by hamas in gaza,
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- Tortured, starved, dehydrated, having terrorists
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- Put a gun to your head and threatened to kill you
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- And watching hamas torture other right in front of you.
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- An exclusive interview
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- With keith siegel about his terrifying experiences,
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- And why he's pushing prime minister netanyahu and president
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- Trump so hard for a deal to get the rest of israel's
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- 50 hostages out of gaza before it's too late.
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- All this and more tonight on the rosenberg report.
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- There are
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- Dozens of israelis still held by hamas
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- In those terror dungeons underneath the gaza strip.
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- We know there's dozens in there.
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- We know there are many more who are israelis who are dead.
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- Their bodies are still in gaza.
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- We want them back so we can bury them properly.
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- But we want the live hostages back as soon as possible,
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- Because what they're going through is unimaginable.
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- Good evening, and welcome
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- To the rosenberg report from jerusalem.
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- Look, i want to draw your attention back
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- To the hostage crisis.
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- It's still ongoing. it's not over.
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- Okay. yes.
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- We've been very focused in recent weeks on the eruption
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- Of the iran israel war directly.
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- But behind all that warfare and the missiles
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- That have been flying back and forth
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- Remains the hostage crisis.
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- And so tonight, i want to
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- I want to introduce you to keith siegel.
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- His wife, aviva siegel, was somebody that lynn
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- And i met in december in washington when aviva
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- And her daughter and several other members of the family
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- Went to washington advocating for the biden
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- Administration, president biden, to to do everything possible,
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- To do more to get her husband and all the hostages out.
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- And then when president trump came into office
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- In january, aviva siegel continued to advocate.
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- She had been in captivity.
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- We interviewed her on the joshua fund's podcast,
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- Inside the epicenter.
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- And then she came on this very set to talk about her
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- Husband, talk about her own experiences
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- More than 50 days as a hostage in gaza.
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- And we, you know, didn't know at that moment if if keith
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- Would ever be released. but we asked you to pray.
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- You did pray.
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- Keith was released several months ago
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- And feels like he's recovered enough at this point
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- To join us on the rosenberg report.
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- Keith siegel, thank you so much for joining me
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- On the rosenberg report.
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- I just can't imagine,
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- Even though i've read so much about you
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- And i've met your wife and we've interviewed her several times,
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- But what you've gone through 484 days
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- In, in the hell of hamas under gaza.
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- I just i'm so sorry for what you've been through.
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- Thank you for sharing your story today on the
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- On the rosenberg report.
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- Thank you.
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- Thank you for having me.
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- It's important to get the message.
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- You're welcome.
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- Yeah.
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- Yeah, we we, i want to i want you to paint the picture
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- For our audience of what you went through.
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- And describe the the worst elements of it.
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- Because.
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- Because there are still israelis
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- Going through it right now, and it's grieving us.
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- We are we're praying we're we're pushing.
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- But but we feel helpless in many ways.
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- But i think if you would share with us
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- Your experiences so people understand
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- Just how bad it really is and how urgent it is, get
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- The rest of these israeli hostages out.
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- It would it would be helpful for us.
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- Yes. so,
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- You mentioned that i was held in captivity for 484 days.
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- I was released on the 1st of february this year,
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- Held in, very difficult situations.
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- I was,
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- I was held
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- Alone for a total of six months
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- Out of the whole 484 days,
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- I was relocated 33 times.
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- I spent time in tunnels.
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- I spent time in schools
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- Sleeping on in the stairs, basically in the stairwell and
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- And then in apartments and houses.
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- I was,
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- Obviously completely detached
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- From my family and my friends, not knowing how they are doing
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- And especially being really stressed about the fact
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- That they have no idea how i'm doing if i'm even alive.
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- Right?
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- My wife aviva and i were kidnaped together,
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- And we spent 51 days together until her release.
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- In what ways did they torture you?
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- We're going
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- To talk in a few moments
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- About how you've witnessed
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- The torture of others, particularly a woman.
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- But how were you treated in this hell of hamas?
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- Yes. i experienced
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- Personally severe violence.
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- A terrorist
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- That kicked me and spat on me and cursed me.
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- And it was just out of the blue.
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- I was lying on the floor.
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- Had not said anything.
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- Had not done anything.
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- This was this happened.
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- Basically, after the ceasefire broke
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- Down on the 1st of december, the terrorists became
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- Very, agitated and and violent.
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- And the whole, way they treated me was,
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- Was much worse. and,
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- And as i said, i was,
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- They commanded me to lie on my back on the floor.
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- I had to stay there the whole time.
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- The only time i was allowed to get up was to go to the toilet,
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- To ask permission to go to the toilet, and then,
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- We were brutally forced out of our house through the window.
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- Aviva was injured in her knee,
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- And she still suffers from pain up until this day.
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- And i was,
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- I was
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- Injured, and we were shot out, and my ribs were.
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- Could have been broken
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- Based on the pain that i suffered from for over a month.
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- Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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- Are we anywhere closer
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- To getting the last living hostages
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- Out of those terror dungeons in gaza?
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- Siegel isn't so sure.
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- He spent 484 days in hamas hell underneath gaza,
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- And he shares more of his harrowing story
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- When the rosenberg report continues on tbn right
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- After the break.
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- After the break.
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- Welcome back to the rosenberg report.
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- We're talking with keith siegel, who was released
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- After 484 days in hamas captivity,
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- Moved 33 times, including being, for many, many months
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- In those terror dungeons underneath, gaza.
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- For six months of his ordeal, all alone.
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- Thank you so much again for joining us.
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- Would you talk about the torture
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- You saw others go through? yes.
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- So a woman
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- That was together with us in captivity.
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- They were the terrorists were accusing her
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- Of being in the idf.
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- And this was not true.
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- They were threatening her.
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- And one day they took her out of the room
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- Into a room,
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- In the location that we were being held in.
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- And after a while, they called me.
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- They told me i must come into the room
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- And to tell the woman the hostage,
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- That she must tell them the truth, that
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- They must confess to what they are accusing her of.
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- And if she did not do that, they would continue.
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- They were beating her. they were beating her.
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- They had tied her hands together and her feet together.
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- They had forced her
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- To lie down on her back.
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- Her mouth was covered, so she couldn't,
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- Say anything. and,
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- I remember
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- They were taking turns beating her with a rod,
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- And one of them was standing behind her,
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- Holding a metal rod
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- With a very sharp point at the end of it.
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- And it was on this
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- Woman's forehead, and he was standing behind her
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- And holding this rod with both of his hands,
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- And he was pressing, applying pressure,
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- Through with this rod, the pointed, sharp, pointed rod.
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- The hostage woman's forehead.
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- Wow. wow.
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- And and
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- What was going through your mind and your heart at that point?
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- I was shocked.
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- The only thing i remember was praying for this to stop.
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- And trying to think,
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- What i can do to make it stop
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- And feeling basically
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- Kind of paralyzed.
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- I mean, not in a literal sense, but,
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- Yeah. i want to help.
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- This will help get out of this horrendous situation.
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- I need to feel like i need to do what the terrorists told me
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- That i need to do, to tell her that she must confess.
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- And other than that,
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- What more can i do?
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- But i can say that since my release
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- And since i have been telling the story over and over again,
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- What's become more and more and more difficult as time goes
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- By is the horrible feeling that i did not do anything
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- To stop this.
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- To stop them torturing this woman. and,
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- I really feel bad about it.
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- Thinking there
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- Was i could have done more and i didn't, so.
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- Yeah, i'm dealing with that.
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- And, i also saw the same woman being,
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- Told that she must get down on her knees,
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- And they had tied her hands behind her back.
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- And the terrorist had a pistol.
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- He was holding a pistol in his hand, and he put it
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- To this woman's head, and he was standing behind her,
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- And he was telling her, if she doesn't confess,
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- She's got he's going to kill her.
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- He's going to shoot her. wow.
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- And this was right in front of me.
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- Right in front of me.
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- So. so would you talk, you know, are you
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- Someone who believes in god?
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- And were you or are you using that sort of as an expression
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- That you were praying?
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- I mean, i at did you
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- Did you go into captivity as somebody who believed in god,
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- That you could talk to him in prayer?
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- Yeah.
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- I'm just curious.
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- You kind of your spiritual
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- Dynamic, your spiritual relationship,
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- You know, going through such a horrible time?
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- Yes. i think it was more figuratively
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- When i said praying in this specific situation.
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- But as time went on, as the days passed
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- And i think,
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- I started to look for,
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- Strength in,
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- And being a jew, being raised in a,
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- Traditionally jewish family.
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- I, i remembered,
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- Certain prayers because i have been secular, pretty much,
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- Since,
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- You know, since my adulthood and i haven't really been,
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- Practicing jew in the religious,
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- Meaning of it or,
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- You know, the rituals and, maybe going to synagogue and
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- And the prayers and but as time went on, i,
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- I received strength, and i received,
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- It really helped me get through the days,
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- Relating more to my, jewish identity,
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- The fact that i'm a jew and i think what also,
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- Maybe,
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- Contributed to that was the ongoing efforts
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- Of the terrorists to convince to convert me to islam,
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- Or something that happened throughout captivity,
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- Many, many times where they were constantly
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- Trying to, get us to convert.
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- So as time went on, i started, saying prayers
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- That i remembered, i prayed, you know, before eating and,
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- You know, shabbat shalom
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- Before the sabbath for the shabbat and,
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- More and more of those,
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- Everything that i could remember, i would say.
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- And, and since then,
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- Since you've come out now, it's been a number of months.
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- For months,
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- Or more at
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- Are you finding yourself reading the bible, reading the psalms?
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- Are you being drawn into more prayer,
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- Or are you sort of shifting back to the sort
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- Of the secular approach that you had before captivity?
- 00:13:29.954 --> 00:13:34.459
- Yes. well, i've
- 00:13:34.826 --> 00:13:37.362
- Actually done most of my focus these days has been on,
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- Trying to help in any way that i can
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- To bring the remaining hostages back.
- 00:13:44.602 --> 00:13:48.172
- There are still 50 hostages in gaza, and four of them i know
- 00:13:48.172 --> 00:13:52.477
- Personally because i spent time with four of them in captivity.
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- I still do pray.
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- And i pray absolutely for the release
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- Of all of the hostages.
- 00:14:04.856 --> 00:14:08.359
- I think,
- 00:14:08.626 --> 00:14:10.595
- I was more focused on, on religious, religion
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- In captivity.
- 00:14:14.265 --> 00:14:16.467
- I think i had less distractions,
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- Maybe of, i don't know, distractions.
- 00:14:18.670 --> 00:14:21.973
- But, you know, i was just,
- 00:14:21.973 --> 00:14:23.775
- I spent hours and days of doing, of lying
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- Down on my back the last six months in captivity.
- 00:14:27.545 --> 00:14:30.148
- I was totally.
- 00:14:30.148 --> 00:14:31.082
- I was just about all the time lying down.
- 00:14:31.082 --> 00:14:34.552
- I was suffering from pain and exhaustion.
- 00:14:34.552 --> 00:14:37.422
- Very, very little food, water.
- 00:14:37.422 --> 00:14:39.924
- So i just,
- 00:14:39.924 --> 00:14:42.660
- I had a lot of time.
- 00:14:43.127 --> 00:14:44.195
- I had a lot of time to think.
- 00:14:44.195 --> 00:14:45.530
- I had a lot of time to pray.
- 00:14:45.530 --> 00:14:48.933
- Absolutely.
- 00:14:49.267 --> 00:14:50.601
- You lost a lot of weight when.
- 00:14:50.601 --> 00:14:52.070
- When we saw images of you coming out of captivity. you.
- 00:14:52.070 --> 00:14:55.473
- I would use the term gaunt.
- 00:14:55.473 --> 00:14:57.241
- How much weight did you lose during captivity?
- 00:14:57.241 --> 00:15:02.814
- I i'm not sure
- 00:15:03.147 --> 00:15:03.915
- It might be, i think,
- 00:15:03.915 --> 00:15:07.719
- Well, i can tell you that i weighed 57 kilos
- 00:15:07.719 --> 00:15:10.588
- When i got back.
- 00:15:10.588 --> 00:15:12.824
- When i was released.
- 00:15:12.824 --> 00:15:14.192
- I think that's 120 pounds, i'm not mistaken.
- 00:15:14.192 --> 00:15:19.030
- I'm five feet, ten inches tall.
- 00:15:19.664 --> 00:15:22.934
- I was i was drastically underweight and, had lost a lot.
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- I had lost a lot of muscle.
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- Are you.
- 00:15:30.742 --> 00:15:31.843
- How are you having nightmares now that you're out?
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- How are you?
- 00:15:33.678 --> 00:15:34.512
- Are you going through counseling?
- 00:15:34.512 --> 00:15:35.680
- What, do you have a rabbi in your life, or anybody else?
- 00:15:35.680 --> 00:15:39.917
- Like, how are you processing being out?
- 00:15:39.917 --> 00:15:42.754
- I know you're
- 00:15:42.754 --> 00:15:43.554
- You're using your time to advocate
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- To get the rest of the hostages out.
- 00:15:45.790 --> 00:15:47.091
- And i'm very, very glad for that.
- 00:15:47.091 --> 00:15:49.093
- How are you doing yourself personally?
- 00:15:49.093 --> 00:15:52.063
- Yes. i am, i'm in therapy.
- 00:15:52.630 --> 00:15:55.199
- I meet with a psychologist, and i'm also part of a support
- 00:15:55.199 --> 00:15:58.336
- Group of, hostages that were released.
- 00:15:58.336 --> 00:16:03.107
- I'm spending a lot of time with my family,
- 00:16:03.975 --> 00:16:06.411
- And they are helping me enormously.
- 00:16:06.411 --> 00:16:10.715
- Their support, and,
- 00:16:11.182 --> 00:16:13.985
- I am,
- 00:16:13.985 --> 00:16:16.754
- I am okay.
- 00:16:16.754 --> 00:16:17.688
- I, i'm more worried and anxious,
- 00:16:17.688 --> 00:16:20.792
- Fearful of of my friends.
- 00:16:20.792 --> 00:16:25.063
- Golly.
- 00:16:25.263 --> 00:16:25.963
- Gali and ziv from my kibbutz
- 00:16:25.963 --> 00:16:29.600
- Which we have lived in for the last 45 years,
- 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.904
- And we have known gali and ziv since they were born.
- 00:16:32.904 --> 00:16:35.873
- We know their parents.
- 00:16:35.873 --> 00:16:36.874
- Their is a very close knit community.
- 00:16:36.874 --> 00:16:40.411
- I think about gali and ziv
- 00:16:40.411 --> 00:16:42.013
- Every day, many times a day, knowing
- 00:16:42.013 --> 00:16:45.183
- What horrendous conditions they are being held in.
- 00:16:46.184 --> 00:16:49.087
- And this just goes on and on and on.
- 00:16:49.087 --> 00:16:51.689
- And i think also about omri miran,
- 00:16:51.689 --> 00:16:54.592
- Who also i spent time with in captivity,
- 00:16:54.592 --> 00:16:57.895
- His wife lisa,
- 00:16:58.229 --> 00:16:59.564
- And his two daughters, aged four and two.
- 00:16:59.564 --> 00:17:03.234
- And how they missed their father and
- 00:17:04.035 --> 00:17:07.939
- And matan who also i spent time with in captivity.
- 00:17:08.940 --> 00:17:12.577
- All of them need to be released urgently.
- 00:17:12.577 --> 00:17:15.713
- They are in a life threatening situation.
- 00:17:15.713 --> 00:17:18.316
- They have
- 00:17:18.316 --> 00:17:19.517
- No way of defending themselves and they are being threatened.
- 00:17:19.517 --> 00:17:21.953
- In many ways.
- 00:17:22.320 --> 00:17:25.022
- Now that the war is resumed,
- 00:17:25.022 --> 00:17:27.158
- They have no where to,
- 00:17:27.158 --> 00:17:30.461
- To go to, to be safe.
- 00:17:30.461 --> 00:17:32.029
- And, and i'm sure everything that i described that
- 00:17:32.029 --> 00:17:35.099
- I experienced, being threatened,
- 00:17:35.099 --> 00:17:38.336
- By the terrorist,
- 00:17:38.336 --> 00:17:40.972
- They're experiencing the same thing.
- 00:17:40.972 --> 00:17:44.342
- Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
- 00:17:45.209 --> 00:17:47.445
- When keith siegel
- 00:17:47.445 --> 00:17:48.579
- Was finally set free from gaza after 484 days in hamas.
- 00:17:48.579 --> 00:17:52.850
- Hell, what did he say to president
- 00:17:52.850 --> 00:17:54.819
- Trump in the oval office?
- 00:17:54.819 --> 00:17:56.554
- What did he tell prime minister netanyahu?
- 00:17:56.554 --> 00:17:58.890
- And what does he want to say
- 00:17:58.890 --> 00:18:00.124
- To every evangelical christian watching this program?
- 00:18:00.124 --> 00:18:03.194
- Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn right
- 00:18:03.194 --> 00:18:06.998
- After the break.
- 00:18:06.998 --> 00:18:07.995
- After the break.
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- Keith, you are a dual u.s.
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- Israeli citizen.
- 00:18:15.139 --> 00:18:16.240
- You made aliya, meaning you became an israeli citizen,
- 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:19.143
- Having been born and raised in the united states. so,
- 00:18:19.143 --> 00:18:22.580
- You know, part of that was you had the great attention
- 00:18:22.580 --> 00:18:26.050
- Of the american people as well as all the hostages.
- 00:18:26.050 --> 00:18:28.352
- But you in particular, among other american hostages.
- 00:18:28.352 --> 00:18:31.656
- What was it like when you met with president trump?
- 00:18:32.723 --> 00:18:35.660
- What did you say to him?
- 00:18:35.660 --> 00:18:37.228
- And what have you said to prime minister netanyahu and
- 00:18:37.228 --> 00:18:40.565
- What do you want to say now?
- 00:18:40.565 --> 00:18:43.968
- Yes, i had the amazing opportunity
- 00:18:44.702 --> 00:18:47.371
- To meet with president trump and together with a group,
- 00:18:47.371 --> 00:18:51.542
- We were a delegation, in washington together.
- 00:18:51.542 --> 00:18:56.080
- President trump listened
- 00:18:56.614 --> 00:18:58.282
- Very attentively to our stories
- 00:18:58.282 --> 00:19:01.352
- About the horrors that we all experienced in captivity. he,
- 00:19:01.352 --> 00:19:06.791
- Was very, very,
- 00:19:07.158 --> 00:19:09.760
- Interested to hear these stories and very,
- 00:19:09.760 --> 00:19:13.097
- Patient to listen to what we had to say.
- 00:19:13.097 --> 00:19:16.234
- And i am eternally grateful to president trump
- 00:19:16.234 --> 00:19:19.804
- For bringing me, bring me, bringing me back to my family,
- 00:19:19.804 --> 00:19:23.674
- Getting securing my release.
- 00:19:23.674 --> 00:19:26.010
- And, basically, asked him
- 00:19:26.010 --> 00:19:29.880
- To continue his efforts and urged him to,
- 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:34.318
- To help, secure an agreement
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- That will bring all of the remaining hostages
- 00:19:37.421 --> 00:19:39.557
- Back, back to their families as soon as possible.
- 00:19:39.557 --> 00:19:42.627
- And the same is true with our meeting
- 00:19:43.427 --> 00:19:46.364
- With prime minister netanyahu. we,
- 00:19:46.364 --> 00:19:49.500
- My daughter's here.
- 00:19:49.967 --> 00:19:51.035
- My wife and i met with prime minister netanyahu and
- 00:19:51.035 --> 00:19:55.039
- Asked him to do whatever needs to be done
- 00:19:55.906 --> 00:19:59.677
- To get all of the hostages released as soon as possible.
- 00:19:59.677 --> 00:20:03.981
- And then,
- 00:20:04.282 --> 00:20:06.651
- And i would just like to reiterate that
- 00:20:06.651 --> 00:20:09.754
- With this opportunity that you have given me now
- 00:20:09.754 --> 00:20:12.723
- To call upon president trump, prime minister netanyahu,
- 00:20:12.723 --> 00:20:16.894
- The mediating countries, the leaders of the world
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- To get this humane crisis, the hostage crisis,
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- Behind
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- Us, get the living back so that they can receive
- 00:20:25.870 --> 00:20:28.406
- The medical treatment that they, dire need
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- And to bring the deceased back to a,
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- A proper burial,
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- Where their families can mourn them. and,
- 00:20:38.282 --> 00:20:42.953
- And actually do something which is very holy
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- And very important in the jewish religion, both saving
- 00:20:48.059 --> 00:20:51.162
- Lives and and respecting the deceased
- 00:20:51.162 --> 00:20:54.332
- And giving them an honorable, proper burial.
- 00:20:54.332 --> 00:20:58.703
- I appreciate you doing that.
- 00:20:59.303 --> 00:21:02.073
- You know, we we long for the day.
- 00:21:02.073 --> 00:21:04.575
- Certainly evangelical christians.
- 00:21:04.575 --> 00:21:06.677
- I'm a i'm from a jewish background.
- 00:21:06.677 --> 00:21:08.245
- On my father's side.
- 00:21:08.245 --> 00:21:09.113
- I'm, but, gentile on my mom's side.
- 00:21:09.113 --> 00:21:11.749
- But we are followers of yeshua, of jesus.
- 00:21:11.749 --> 00:21:14.185
- And there are, you know,
- 00:21:14.185 --> 00:21:16.053
- Hundreds of millions of evangelical christians
- 00:21:16.053 --> 00:21:18.622
- In the united states and around the world
- 00:21:18.622 --> 00:21:19.957
- That have been praying for you in person,
- 00:21:19.957 --> 00:21:22.526
- Because of what aviva has done on our show, our podcast
- 00:21:22.526 --> 00:21:25.930
- And so many other, media outlets.
- 00:21:25.930 --> 00:21:28.733
- You had a real advocate.
- 00:21:28.733 --> 00:21:30.034
- She loves you from from her youth.
- 00:21:30.034 --> 00:21:32.703
- And she did not stop, passionately,
- 00:21:32.703 --> 00:21:36.707
- Pressing for, for your release and the release
- 00:21:36.707 --> 00:21:39.577
- Of all the hostages.
- 00:21:39.577 --> 00:21:40.544
- When that happens, that will, you know,
- 00:21:40.544 --> 00:21:42.413
- When when we get to the end of this war and everybody's free
- 00:21:42.413 --> 00:21:45.216
- And we pray that that will happen very, very soon.
- 00:21:45.216 --> 00:21:47.952
- What do you guys want to do with the rest of your lives?
- 00:21:47.952 --> 00:21:50.354
- Because you've been.
- 00:21:50.354 --> 00:21:51.455
- This has been such a huge interruption and a huge,
- 00:21:51.455 --> 00:21:54.692
- A stain on this season of your life.
- 00:21:55.459 --> 00:21:58.329
- But but where do you want to go?
- 00:21:58.329 --> 00:22:00.331
- What do you guys want to do together?
- 00:22:00.331 --> 00:22:03.367
- Yes. generally speaking, it's
- 00:22:03.367 --> 00:22:05.302
- Very hard for me to see beyond,
- 00:22:05.302 --> 00:22:08.372
- The present, beyond today.
- 00:22:08.372 --> 00:22:11.475
- Yesterday seems very far away,
- 00:22:11.475 --> 00:22:14.111
- And tomorrow seems very far away.
- 00:22:14.111 --> 00:22:16.180
- As far as my perception of time, i don't know,
- 00:22:16.180 --> 00:22:19.650
- It's something that's very,
- 00:22:19.650 --> 00:22:22.686
- A very big part of my experience of life these days.
- 00:22:22.686 --> 00:22:25.723
- But i would definitely, want to make the world
- 00:22:25.723 --> 00:22:31.061
- A better place in any way that i can, help people.
- 00:22:31.061 --> 00:22:35.833
- Help people that are,
- 00:22:36.333 --> 00:22:39.003
- That are in trouble.
- 00:22:39.003 --> 00:22:41.906
- And generally speaking, contribute whatever
- 00:22:41.906 --> 00:22:44.408
- I am able to, to,
- 00:22:44.408 --> 00:22:47.912
- To help people and to make the world
- 00:22:47.912 --> 00:22:50.514
- A better place for all.
- 00:22:50.514 --> 00:22:53.751
- Is there anything that we in the evangelical
- 00:22:53.751 --> 00:22:55.820
- Christian community can do?
- 00:22:55.820 --> 00:22:59.156
- That you want to make an
- 00:22:59.690 --> 00:23:00.724
- Appeal to us right now as we close the show?
- 00:23:00.724 --> 00:23:04.795
- Yes. if you could all please,
- 00:23:05.429 --> 00:23:08.499
- Tell your family, your families and your friends
- 00:23:08.499 --> 00:23:12.603
- And anybody that you might just happen to meet on the way.
- 00:23:12.603 --> 00:23:16.273
- Remind them.
- 00:23:16.607 --> 00:23:17.575
- Remind them that there are still 50 hostages
- 00:23:17.575 --> 00:23:20.511
- In gaza that have been there for so long.
- 00:23:20.511 --> 00:23:26.016
- And please, keep this issue,
- 00:23:26.617 --> 00:23:31.388
- Keep this crisis in the public eye.
- 00:23:31.388 --> 00:23:34.792
- In any way that you can.
- 00:23:35.326 --> 00:23:37.061
- And i think, with all the news,
- 00:23:37.061 --> 00:23:40.898
- Changing from day to day, and now we have the war
- 00:23:40.898 --> 00:23:43.467
- With iran, that is a,
- 00:23:43.467 --> 00:23:47.137
- Occupying a lot of people's attention.
- 00:23:47.137 --> 00:23:50.040
- It feels like the hostage crisis has been,
- 00:23:50.040 --> 00:23:53.444
- Kind of moved aside or moved behind.
- 00:23:53.444 --> 00:23:56.547
- It's urgent to get them back.
- 00:23:57.181 --> 00:23:59.583
- And every day that goes by is endangering their lives.
- 00:23:59.583 --> 00:24:04.622
- And again,
- 00:24:04.922 --> 00:24:06.423
- I call upon the release of all of the 50, the alive
- 00:24:06.423 --> 00:24:10.261
- And the deceased, and we need to do it as soon as possible.
- 00:24:10.261 --> 00:24:16.901
- To save
- 00:24:17.134 --> 00:24:18.235
- Lives and to get the deceased back to their families.
- 00:24:18.235 --> 00:24:20.804
- I agree, and that's why i am so grateful
- 00:24:20.804 --> 00:24:23.707
- That you would take time out, especially during a raging war
- 00:24:23.707 --> 00:24:27.344
- Between israel and iran and, all the volatility
- 00:24:27.344 --> 00:24:30.981
- And instability, but that you would make time,
- 00:24:30.981 --> 00:24:33.984
- To come on
- 00:24:33.984 --> 00:24:35.152
- The rosenberg report on tbn, which is the most watched
- 00:24:35.152 --> 00:24:37.621
- Christian television network in the
- 00:24:37.621 --> 00:24:39.356
- In the world and certainly in the united states,
- 00:24:39.356 --> 00:24:41.258
- And to and to share your story and to make your case.
- 00:24:41.258 --> 00:24:44.762
- Thank you.
- 00:24:44.762 --> 00:24:45.596
- Thank you for doing that.
- 00:24:45.596 --> 00:24:46.664
- Thank you that that that you haven't just sort of,
- 00:24:46.664 --> 00:24:49.600
- Closed up and decided to hide, which would be understandable
- 00:24:49.600 --> 00:24:52.303
- Given what you've gone through.
- 00:24:52.303 --> 00:24:53.671
- But you, you and aviva are, are pushing forward.
- 00:24:53.671 --> 00:24:57.141
- You've got, you know, you're both out.
- 00:24:57.908 --> 00:24:59.543
- So you could say, okay,
- 00:24:59.543 --> 00:25:00.611
- I don't even want to deal with the topic anymore,
- 00:25:00.611 --> 00:25:02.513
- But you are advocating so passionately for the other 50.
- 00:25:02.513 --> 00:25:05.783
- And, it's deeply moving to me and my wife and our colleagues.
- 00:25:05.783 --> 00:25:10.421
- And i just want to say thank you,
- 00:25:10.421 --> 00:25:13.090
- Joel.
- 00:25:13.090 --> 00:25:14.124
- Thank you very, very much, because you give us
- 00:25:14.124 --> 00:25:15.893
- A lot of strength and your,
- 00:25:15.893 --> 00:25:19.096
- Recognizing the importance of this issue
- 00:25:19.964 --> 00:25:22.766
- And giving us the opportunity to speak to you
- 00:25:22.766 --> 00:25:25.436
- And to your audience of so, so many people
- 00:25:25.436 --> 00:25:28.005
- Is a very important part of all of the efforts
- 00:25:28.005 --> 00:25:31.642
- That are being, made to get the hostages back.
- 00:25:31.642 --> 00:25:35.613
- So once again, thank you very, very much.
- 00:25:35.613 --> 00:25:38.482
- I'm very grateful for this opportunity.
- 00:25:38.482 --> 00:25:42.186
- It's a it's a deep honor. thank you.
- 00:25:42.186 --> 00:25:44.288
- We're so glad that you are truly alive
- 00:25:44.288 --> 00:25:47.858
- And released and, and i look forward to meeting
- 00:25:47.858 --> 00:25:51.495
- You heart to heart, face to face.
- 00:25:51.495 --> 00:25:53.631
- And i would love to have dinner with you guys when.
- 00:25:53.631 --> 00:25:56.000
- When everything clears.
- 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.067
- And, and it's not so dangerous. bless you.
- 00:25:57.067 --> 00:25:59.436
- God bless you. that will be wonderful.
- 00:25:59.436 --> 00:26:01.472
- Thank you. joel.
- 00:26:01.472 --> 00:26:02.640
- God bless you. thank you.
- 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:04.775
- What a horrifying experience.
- 00:26:04.775 --> 00:26:06.610
- Keith siegel went through his wife as well,
- 00:26:06.610 --> 00:26:08.612
- But then he went 484 days in hamas.
- 00:26:08.612 --> 00:26:12.716
- Hell lost.
- 00:26:12.716 --> 00:26:14.451
- You know, he couldn't remember exactly,
- 00:26:14.451 --> 00:26:16.153
- But he knows that he came out of, of those tunnels,
- 00:26:16.153 --> 00:26:19.123
- Those dungeons at about 120 pounds.
- 00:26:19.123 --> 00:26:21.525
- He's five foot ten that he was probably around 175, 180,
- 00:26:21.525 --> 00:26:25.362
- Which means he lost 50 or 60 pounds,
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- Which means he lost a third
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- Of his body weight as he was being starved to death
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- Star for oxygen, starved for food, rarely
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- Getting water, being tortured, watching other people tortured.
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- Lord, i ask you that we would pray to the lord that,
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- First of all, thanksgiving. that he's free.
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- Thank you, god that he's alive.
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- You know, when i, when lynn and
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- I met, aviva in december, you know, she made the case.
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- He she she talked about her husband.
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- We didn't know if the lord
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- Would be so merciful as to let him out
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- When i interviewed aviva
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- For the rosenberg report, we didn't know that either, but.
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- But god did set him free. and many others.
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- But there are still people to pray for, so keep praying.
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- Every single person that comes out is a miracle,
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- And we cannot get cynical and we cannot give up,
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- Or grow weary in well-doing keep praying
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- For the release of every single hostage.
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- Isaiah 61 lord set the captives free.
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- Thank you so much for watching. that's our show for tonight.
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- Walk with the lord. spend time in his word.
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- Spend time in prayer.
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- Care for the poor. needy.
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- Keep praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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- And, lord willing, i'll see you next week.
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- Right here on the rosenberg report.
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