Dorothea Shefer-Vanson is an author and freelance writer based in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevasseret Zion, Israel.

JTA — As she watched a cascade of seemingly conflicting news reports about the three highest-profile Israeli hostages, Noam Nisim didn’t know what to think. First, a popular Israeli news ...

When visiting a friend in the Netherlands he recommended this book and I decided to try and get hold of it. This was not as easy as it sounds, and it was only through a special search feature of ...

It was only when I saw the TV interview with the mother of one of the hostages still held in Gaza and heard her heartfelt cry: “My son is being tortured in the tunnels! Starving! In chains!” ...