(1 Sep 2024)
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Jerusalem – 1 September 2024
1. Close of a candle with artwork showing dead Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin
2. Tilt up from candles to a banner reading (English/Hebrew) “Bring Hersh home now”
3. People hugging
4. Various of vigil
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Shira Ben Sasson, vigil organiser:
“Tonight we got together to pray. We have a Torah scroll that we dedicated for Hersh (Goldberg-Polin) a few weeks ago, in hope that he would be using it when he gets home and we were able to take it out and use it tonight. Which is not something we imagined would ever happen and we are at awe at the number of people who are not congregants of this synagogue, who came to join us.”
6. Wide of vigil organiser Shira Ben Sasson holding a Torah scroll dedicated to Goldberg-Polin
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Shira Ben Sasson, vigil organiser:
“Hersh grew up here. The last night that we celebrated with him was the holiday of Simchat Torah, the evening before he went to the Nova Festival. And he was dancing on this floor right here the night before he left. And that’s the last that the all of the congregation saw him. And we decided today that we need a space to pray and to sing and to write things down and to light a candle, to bring some flowers.”
8. Close of lit candles
9. Wide of people lighting candles
10. Various of candles
STORYLINE:
Dozens of mourners attended a candlelight vigil for Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli hostage who was killed in the Gaza Strip, at his family’s synagogue in southern Jerusalem on Sunday.
People cried as they prayed together, sang Israel’s national anthem, HaTikvah, and read out a list of those whose deaths were announced on Saturday and also those that remain in captivity.
Shira Ben Sasson, an organizer of the event, said that the space for the vigil was chosen because it was where Goldberg-Polin had danced in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah before leaving the next day for the Nova Festival where he was kidnapped by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Hersh grew up here,” Ben Sasson said, referring to the small synagogue, adding that “we decided today that we need a space to pray and to sing and to write things down, to light a candle, to bring some flowers.”
The Israeli military had identified the bodies of six hostages recovered from a tunnel in the Gaza Strip and says their militant captors killed them shortly before Israeli forces could rescue them.
The army identified them as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23; Ori Danino, 25; Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Almog Sarusi, 27; and Alexander Lobanov, 33; all of whom were abducted from a music festival during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
The sixth, Carmel Gat, 40, was abducted from the nearby farming community of Be’eri.
The family of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin announced the young man’s death early Sunday, ending a relentless campaign by his parents to rescue him that included meetings with world leaders and an address to the US Democratic convention last month.
Goldberg-Polin, 23, was seized by militants at a music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
The native of Berkeley, California, lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the attack.
In April, a Hamas-issued video showed him, his left hand missing and clearly speaking under duress, sparking new protests in Israel urging the government to do more to secure his and others’ freedom.
AP video shot by Sam McNeil
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