Gal Gadot stopped by to support the hostage families at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on Sunday, which has been designated as a nationwide day of strikes and demonstrations. In a video posted to the Instagram account bringhomenow, the Israeli actress turned Hollywood superstar spoke with Lishay Miran-Lavi, the wife of Omri Miran, one of the 50 hostages still held in Gaza.
In Sunday’s Instagram video, Gadot spoke to Miran-Lavi, clasped her hand, and hugged her. Omri Miran was kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, leaving behind his wife and two young daughters.
Miran-Lavi has been fighting tirelessly for his release all this time. Her husband, now 48, has marked two birthdays in Hamas captivity. The last video and photo of him was released by his kidnappers just before Holocaust Remembrance Day in late April.
His family called his continuing captivity a “disgrace” and said, “On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, on which it’s customary to say ‘never again,’ there is an Israeli citizen crying out for help in a Hamas tunnel. This is a disgrace for the State of Israel,” in a statement released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
The Instagram bringhomenow account also posted still photos of the Wonder Woman star consoling other hostage families, including Einav Zangauker, the mother of Matan Zangauker, who was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz with his girlfriend, Ilana Gritzewsky. Gritzewsky was released in November 2023, as part of a hostage deal.
Zangauker is one of the most outspoken of the hostage-family activists, and has said that this strike is “only the beginning.”
Gadot has consistently spoken out in support of the hostages and their families, frequently wearing the yellow-hostage pin.
Recently, she appeared on the Keshet 12 series, The A Talks, in which she spoke candidly to interviewers on the autism spectrum and expressed her hopes for the swift release of the hostages, echoing her statement at the opening of the Jerusalem Film Festival, where she was a guest of honor, in July.
In late July, Gadot met with released hostages Gritzewsky, Doron Steinbrecher, Liri Albag, Naama Levy, and Moran Stella Yanai.
Thousands demand hostage deal, halt to Gaza campaign
Sunday’s protests were part of a coordinated nationwide day of action involving demonstrations in over 300 locations, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa. Participants called on the government to end the fighting in Gaza and finalize a deal to bring the remaining hostages home.
Dozens of protestors were arrested by police, including in Jerusalem, where officers deployed water cannons near the entrance to Highway 16. Organizers said the strike was the largest since the war began.
The demonstrations were led by hostage families and supported by labor unions, university faculty, and tech companies, many of which temporarily closed in solidarity.
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.