AMIT SEGAL: When his son was taken by Hamas on October 7, this father had to hide his parentage. 

Liam Or-Nassar was abducted from Kibbutz Re’im, and his Muslim Arab father, Ramzi Nassar, made the agonizing decision to erase himself from the public story to protect his child.

Fearing that Hamas might view his son as a symbol of betrayal—a Muslim father married to a Jewish mother—Nassar asked that his family name be removed from all official and media references. Liam Or-Nassar became Liam Or and stayed that way until now.