Saving Abigail: The True Story of the Abduction and Rescue of a Three-Year-Old Hostage:

by Liz Hirsh Naftali

Overview

Saving Abigail is a true story about a little girl taken hostage by Hamas the morning of October 7, 2023, after thousands of terrorists breached Israel by land, sea, and air. That day, Hamas slaughtered 1,200 men, women, and children, and 246 innocent people were dragged across the border into Gaza against their will.

Among them was three-year-old Abigail Mor Edan, whose border community was ransacked by fighters going from house to house and killing, raping, and abducting civilians from their homes. Abigail's mother and father were murdered in front of their children, and Abigail-the youngest-was abducted.

With no prior experience or road map for how to save a hostage from captivity, Abigail's great aunt Liz Hirsh Naftali undertook an international effort to share her niece's face and story-with the US government, bipartisan congressional leaders, and world leaders-finding unlikely allies and supporters along the way. Though not a diplomat, politician, or military expert, Liz was determined to extricate this child from an ongoing geopolitical nightmare and free her from the Hamas terrorists who held her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798895650271
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	09/09/2024
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	30,171
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Liz Hirsh Naftali is the great aunt of Abigail Mor Edan, a three-year-old who was held hostage in Gaza for fifty-one days. Abigail was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, from her kibbutz, Kfar Aza, after her parents were both murdered in front of her by Hamas terrorists.

In the wake of that attack, Naftali became a fervent advocate working for the release of the hostages. Even after Abigail’s release on November 26, she remains dedicated to working for all those who remain in captivity in Gaza.

Naftali is the host and creator of The Capitol Coffee Connection podcast, a platform where she invites prominent, diverse leaders to talk about the common thread that binds us all together—our shared experiences, stories, dreams, and the very essence of our heart and humanity—leaving out politics and policy.

Naftali is the mother of five children and has lived between Israel and the US since 1992.