Yair Yaakov is the cousin of Ryan Pessah. Yaakov is believed to be a hostage in Gaza as well as his girlfriend and two sons. Courtesy Ryan Pessah ...

The bodies of two deceased hostages were recovered from southern Gaza in a military operation, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet security agency announced Wednesday evening. Yair Yaakov ...

Pessah said all he can do being so far away from his family in Israel is stay positive that he will see his 59-year-old cousin Yair Yaakov once again.

Meirav Tal, Yair Yaakov, and his two children aged 16 and 12 were taken hostage. Pessah said the teenagers, in a different bomb shelter, were on the phone with their mother when they were abducted.

Yair Yaakov, his sons Or and Yagil Yaakov and longtime girlfriend, Meirav Tal, were taken hostage from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel by Hamas terrorists. While Meirav Tal and ...

Hell began for us when my wife and I called my brother, Yair Yaakov, during the first round of missile attacks the morning of Oct. 7, to check in on him; his girlfriend, Meirav Tal; and my two ...

Netanyahu’s office identified the remains of one of the hostages recovered Wednesday as Yair Yaakov, who was killed during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. The identity of the second hostage whose body ...

With several citizens held in Gaza, Germany has adopted a forceful role in the fight for hostages, seeing itself as responsible for their safe return from captivity The post Since Oct. 7, Berlin has ...

That day, nobody could reach Yair Yaakov, his girlfriend Meirav Tal or his two sons. The family’s fears were confirmed the following day.

For months, Passah and his family didn't know if his cousin, Yair Yaakov, 59, Yair's girlfriend and his two sons, ages 16 and 12, were alive or dead. Passah said Hamas captured his cousin in the ...