Israel’s Hostages and Missing Families Forum released an AI-generated video—approved by the family—depicting Master Sgt. Ran Gvili “speaking” directly to President Donald Trump, urging him to act so Israel doesn’t face “another Ron Arad” scenario of decades with no closure.

Gvili, a police officer known as “Rani,” was killed fighting Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 attack and his body was abducted into Gaza. Israeli authorities later confirmed his death, but his remains have not been returned—keeping his family, and the country, trapped in an open wound.

The “Ron Arad” reference is deliberate: Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator captured in Lebanon in 1986, became the symbol of a missing soldier whose fate never fully closed. Families are warning Israel cannot let Hamas turn Gvili into the next name on that painful list.