“I want all of you to put on tefillin together with me—my dream while in captivity was to put on tefillin, and we’ll do it for the release of all our brothers who are still there.”
Bar Kupershtein, who was released from Hamas captivity on Oct. 13, is planning to lead a mass tefillin-laying event at 10 a.m. on Friday at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv.
“I want all of you to put on tefillin together with me—my dream while in captivity was to put on tefillin, and we’ll do it for the release of all our brothers who are still there,” the former abductee said on Tuesday to an audience that gathered at Hostage Square in front of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, according to Hebrew-language outlet Kikar Hashabat.
Kupershtein thanked the crowd for taking part in the campaign to retrieve the 251 hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023.