A year after Shalit was released from captivity in 2011, the two were even both invited as guests Barcelona FC to attend a ...

The Israeli hostages released in exchange are Avera Mengistu, Eliya Cohen, Hisham al-Sayed, Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov, and ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was held prisoner by the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza for five years, is engaged. His girlfriend, Nitzan Shabbat, posted a photo of the ...

He was freed by Hamas in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange and returned to live in his home town of Kobar, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. However, in 2014, Israel re-arrested him ...

Israelis have long accepted lopsided deals to bring back imperiled citizens. But the release of Palestinians convicted in shootings and suicide bombings are stirring worries that the deal with Hamas ...

Activist who pushed for Shalit deal: 'Saving lives is most important value in Israeli society,' says she'd be 'happy' to see alternative.

Initially sentenced to 16 life sentences in Israel, Tamimi was released after only 12 years as part of the exchange deal for the release of soldier Gilad Shalit. Her role in the attack was crucial ...

Tamimi was released in the Gilad Shalit deal in 2011 after being sentenced to 16 life sentences. In 2017, the US Department of Justice published a criminal complaint and issued an arrest warrant ...

In 2011, he used his Palestinian contacts to help the Israeli government free a soldier named Gilad Shalit. Militants from the Palestinian group Hamas had taken him hostage five years earlier.