'They Told Me My Wife Was Dead': Elkana Bohbot’s Testimony of Atrocities in Captivity

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The survivor of the captivity told Yedioth Ahronoth in an interview that his captors lied to him that his mother was dead and that his wife had left him. He also testified that he planned to escape from the apartment where he was being held, but was transferred to a tunnel before he could implement his plan. "Underground, you can't get out anymore. There, there's no difference between you and a dead person," he added.

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In a sneak peek of an interview that will air tomorrow on Channel 12, a captivity survivor tells of the moments of terror in which a terrorist prayed in front of his eyes that his little son Ram would die • "He started bowing there on the floor just to ask for it"

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Elkana Bohbot returns to the most difficult moments in captivity, and describes how his captors tried to break him through his wife Rivka and son Ram • In a difficult testimony, he says: "Those curses that they would curse my wife and my son – that was something that was the hardest for me in the world" • The full interview will be broadcast tomorrow on the main edition