Hadar Goldin

Leo Terrell’s civil rights roots fuel his fight against antisemitism

Fighting antisemitism is "personal to me," Leo Terrell tells the Magazine, as he leads a federal task force targeting threats to the Jewish community.

LEO TERRELL in his Washington office wearing his Hadar Goldin hat, with hostage pictures in the background. Lt. Goldin died in a 2014 Hamas ambush in Gaza, with his body finally returned to be laid to rest in Israel this past Nov.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir salutes as he stands with the family of fallen soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin at his funeral in Kfar Saba Military Cemetery, November 11, 2025.

After 11 years, Hadar Goldin's family marks Remembrance Day with closure

IDF soldiers stand at the entrance of a tunnel that Hamas used to attack Israel, in Beit Hanun, December 17, 2023

'Like a subway': IDF reveals Rafah tunnels where Hadar Goldin's remains were held

Tzur Goldin speaks at an event to remember his twin brother, Hadar.

Hadar Goldin's brother warns West of hostage-taking threat: 'This is not only an Israeli story'


Naftali Bennett: To stop Gaza terrorism, focus on Iran and Syria

"I will do everything to prevent a third Lebanon war, a 14th Protective Edge, to go to the source, to go to the same people who pay $1b. a year to Hezbollah"

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett during a recent visit to the Syrian border

Goldin family: Don’t return bodies of Palestinians until our son is home

The family of missing IDF soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin has urged the government to stop returning bodies of Palestinians until their son is returned.

The families of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul at a press conference, August 5, 2018

‘Get our sons out of Gaza just like you’re freeing Naama from Russia’

Hamas is also holding two civilian captives who wandered into Gaza: Ethiopian-Israeli Avera Mengistu and Bedouin-Israeli Hisham al-Sayed.

Leah Goldin, mother of Hadar, speaks at a press conference, August 5, 2018

Israel moving towards ‘calm’ agreement with Hamas

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh next to his destroyed office (REUTERS/Handout)

Katz: No arrangement with Hamas without returning Goldin and Shaul

“There will not be an arrangement without the return of the captives and missing soldiers, but there could be calm,” he told Army Radio.

St.Sgt. Oron Shaul, whose remains are held by Hamas in Gaza

A parallel reality

One possible conclusion is that Israel is plagued by the existence of “parallel realities” – one experienced by the general public, and the other by its elected leadership.

IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin, Benaya Sarel and Liel Gidoni died fighting Hamas terrorists in 2014

Repatriate missing soldiers and civilians

The international community must acknowledge their return is an obligation, not a bargaining chip.

A HAMAS member in a tunnel during the 2014 war

Encountering Peace: Bring our citizens home

Two Israeli citizens, presumed to be alive, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, have been in Hamas captivity for more than four years.

BRING OUR citizens back from Gaza

Hamas: Israel refusing to pay the price for prisoner swap

Khalil al-Hayya, another senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, also denied any progress related a potential prisoner swap with Israel.

Palestinians take part in a rally marking the 31st anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Gaza City

Netanyahu won’t transfer terrorists' bodies to Gaza until MIAs returned

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "No change in policy of targeted assassinations."

Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi in Tel Aviv on Tuesday