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| FILE – Relatives of U.S. citizens that are missing since Saturday’s surprise attack by Hamas militants near the Gaza border, attend a news conference on Oct. 10, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Seated from left: Jonathan Dekel-Chen, father of Sagui Dekel-Chen (35) from Nahal Oz; Ruby Chen, father of Itay Chen, 19, a soldier in the armored corps; Ayala Neta, daughter, and Nahal Neta, son of Adrienne Neta, 66, a nurse living in Kibbitz Be’eri; Rachel Goldberg, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, and Jonathan Polin, Hersh’s father. Hersh was last seen when Hamas militants loaded him into the back of a pickup truck with other hostages abducted from a trance music festival in the western Negev Desert on Oct. 7. His mother, Rachel Goldberg, expects to see him again. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) |
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“When you’re going through hell, keep walking”: Israeli courage and the challenge of our lives
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| Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a twenty-three-year-old American-Israeli born in Berkeley, California, was at the Nova music festival last weekend when more than 260 attendees were massacred by Hamas terrorists. Hersh took cover in a bomb shelter, but a grenade blew off his arm from the elbow down. Since he could still walk, he was ordered by Hamas to leave the shelter. His phone soon pinged across the border in Gaza, where authorities say he is being held hostage.
His parents, who were born and raised in Chicago and moved to Israel fifteen years ago, have not heard from him since. His mother, Rachel Goldberg, said of him, “Hersh is my only son and he’s my first child. He’s what made me a mother. I feel like God could have given him to anyone and he gave me the perfect son for me.”
Now she is spending her days praying for his return, telling his story to media outlets, and appealing to US senators and Israeli politicians. “We need to know that we are doing every single thing that we can do,” she said.
She added: “I think when you’re in hell, if you stop, then you’re really stuck. So when you’re going through hell, keep walking—and that’s what I’m doing.”
From the beginning of their story, the Jews have needed such courage simply to exist as a people. |
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