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Sapir Cohen, a young Israeli woman, was taken hostage on October 7, 2023, while visiting her boyfriend’s family for the religious holiday of Simchat Torah. he spent 55 days imprisoned in gaza He was released before being released as part of a deal with Hamas militants, who had taken him and hundreds of other Israelis captive. Cohen’s lover Sasha Trofanov has been held captive along with a hundred other people for exactly a year today.
Cohen visited my children’s overnight program this summer, and shared his experience telling the campers about the plight of those still left in Gaza.
He shared, “There are no lights down there (in the tunnels). Sometimes a terrorist would use a flashlight, but still, I couldn’t see anything. There’s not even air there.” She began to describe the lack of oxygen, the prevalence of moisture and mold, and the lack of food. He experienced it for less than two months; Sasha and 100 others have twelve months.
She goes wherever she goes to share her story Raise awareness about hostages Who has wasted a year of her life in the tunnels of Gaza because she knows the world has lost interest in her. There are no yellow ribbons on the trees of small towns across America in honor of the four Americans still held hostage; Nor were there large memorials for Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a young American boy who was taken hostage and killed in the tunnels in Gaza a month earlier.
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Even Trufanov’s own employer has abandoned him. Despite working as an engineer on a vital project for Amazon, the Seattle-based company has remained silent about his plight.
Amazon is not alone in its indifference toward its incarcerated Jewish employees. A year earlier, Guy Gilboa-Broker, an employee of SodaStream, a PepsiCo subsidiary, was also taken captive, and Pepsi has maintained its silence. Pepsi has had no trouble standing out and speaking out on other social issues, yet, when it comes to their own employee who was kidnapped from a concert, they can’t be afraid to advocate for his immediate and unconditional release. .
On the October 7 anniversary, hostage Emily Damarry’s mother Mandy spoke about her daughter, violently taken from the kibbutz Kafr Aza, on the Gaza border.
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In her British accent, Mandy pleaded, “I would like to feel that the British public was behind him, and the British government was behind him, and they were saying that a British hostage was being held in terrorist tunnels by Hamas in Gaza I want them to know that she is out there, and advocate for her release unconditionally and immediately. She is a young woman, and who knows there is a way to put her out there. See people say he’s there, (and) make sure he’s not forgotten.”
The worst fears of their families and loved ones have been realized; Sasha, Guy and Emily have been forgotten. To put it simply and bluntly: hostages and their families feel alone and abandoned because they have done this. Their employers have abandoned them, and so have their governments. The world community and organizations tasked with advocating for the most vulnerable among us have clearly indicated that Jews do not count in their hierarchy of victims.
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Not only have the victims of October 7 been forgotten, but they have been turned into oppressors by evil individuals and organizations who have decided that Jewish lives do not matter.
In the days before the anniversary Amnesty International UK justified the massacre and reminded its followers “Don’t tell anyone that it all started on 7 October 2023.”
In response to Amnesty, pro-Israel influential Hein Mazig asked, “So when did it start? In 2002, during the second intifada, when I was almost killed in a terrorist attack? Or in 1951, when my family was expelled from Tunisia. Was it to be Jewish? Or in 1941, when my family members were killed and when the Hebron massacre began in 1929? The day we remember the deadliest massacre of Jews and post videos like this since the holocaustAnd October 7 is not over for us, because 101 hostages are still being held in Gaza 365 days later.”
One year on, millions of Jews, both American and Israeli, are still stuck on October 7, but the year is still 2023, not 2024. Life has moved on as we try to beg for sympathy, relevance and attention. While the world celebrates Christmas and holidays like Hanukkah, Easter and Passover, we struggle to remind the world that we are still stuck in October. And here we are, back in October.
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In his famous book, “Anne of Green Gables,” wrote L.M. Montgomery, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
For Jews, our world has been nothing but October for the last twelve months. Finding ourselves back in October is a painful reminder that our hearts, all 101 of them, are still imprisoned in Gaza. It won’t stop being October 7th until they all come home.
