Come sundown Saturday evening, the holiday of Passover beings and the Jewish people will be celebrating their freedom from oppression, tyranny, and anti-Semitism. Below is a video that tells the story of the Exodus in about 6 minutes.
However, it is on this festival of freedom, where the Jewish people will sit at home and remember the story of their freedom, that we must remember those Israeli soldiers who are not free but remain in captivity.
 | Yehuda Katz was born in Ramat Gan on 18 July 1959. He has been missing since the battle of Sultan Yaqub, on 11 June 1982. |
 | Zvi Feldman was born in Tel Aviv on 29 December 1956. He has been missing since the battle of Sultan Yaqub, on 11 June 1982. |
 | Zachary Baumel was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 17 November 1960. He hasbeen missing since the battle of Sultan Yaqub, on 11 June 1982. |
 | Ron Arad was born in Israel on 5 May 1958. He was taken captive by Amal, a Lebanese Shi'ite militia group on 16 October 1986, after parachuting from his plane which was shot down over Sidon in Lebanon. |
 | Guy Hever was born in Tel Aviv on 30 May 1977. He went missing from his army base on the Golan Heights on 17 August 1997. |
 | Gilad Shalit was born in Nahariya on 28 August 1986. He was abducted by terrorists during an attack on the Kerem Shalom command post on 25 June 2006. He is being held by the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza. |
 | Eldad Regev was born in Kiryat Motzkin on 16 August 1980. He was abducted to Lebanon on 12 July 2006 after his army patrol was attacked by Hizbullah terrorists. |
 | Ehud Goldwasser was born in Nahariya on 18 July 1975. He was abducted to Lebanon on 12 July 2006 after his army patrol was attacked by Hizbullah terrorists. |
At your seder table, please leave one chair empty for the Israeli soldiers who still remain captive. Also, click here for a copy of a prayer to say for the missing soldiers.
At this festival of freedom, I wish to say Happy Passover or Chag Kasher ve Samayach, and may we all be able to live in peace together in Jerusalem.
Leshana Haba BeYerushalayim!
- Greg
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