Deborah Danan
By Deborah Danan
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Fast Forward As Kfir Bibas turns 1 in captivity, supporters from Tel Aviv to Davos mark ‘the saddest birthday in the world’
Kfir Bibas was the youngest Israeli taken hostage on Oct. 7 and, with his brother, the only child left in Gaza after a ceasefire deal in November
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News Israel’s ravaged kibbutzes have become museums of the macabre. Their former residents want to go home.
One hundred days after Oct. 7, questions loom about how to handle the wreckage
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Fast Forward Dozens of Penn professors spent the week in Israel, following their university president’s antisemitism resignation
“I was truly surprised to see how much our visit meant to our Israeli colleagues,” a cinema and media studies professor said
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Fast Forward Birthright is resuming its free trips to Israel for the first time since Oct. 7
The trips mark a potent symbol of a potential return to normalcy for Israel, which has been in war mode since Oct. 7
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News Rachel Goldberg doesn’t know if what she’s doing will bring her son Hersh home. But she won’t stop trying.
In trying to free her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostages, Goldberg has spoken to the pope, Elon Musk, Joe Biden and more
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Fast Forward Sylvan Adams, philanthropist known for boosting cycling in Israel, gives $100M to help Ben-Gurion U after Oct. 7
The gift is the largest ever to an Israeli university and on par with the biggest to any university anywhere
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Fast Forward How dogs are bringing comfort to released hostages and their families in Israel
Poignant reunions between newly freed owners and their canine companions have been flooding social media
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Fast Forward Hugs, slinkies and trauma care: How the Israeli health system will treat the released hostages
The medical response for each hostage will be individualized, and involve extensive. monitoring
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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