Yair Yaakov, standing in back in a family photo, is the cousin of Ryan Pessah of Sacramento. Yaakov is believed to be a hostage in Gaza, as are Yaakov’s girlfriend and two sons, 12 and 16.

With several citizens held in Gaza, Germany has adopted a forceful role in the fight for hostages, seeing itself as ...

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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 ...

Kibbutz announces one of its residents who was kidnapped on October 7, 59-year-old Yair Yaakov, was murdered that day. His partner and 2 kidnapped children were released during hostage deal in ...

Militants also took Yaakov’s partner, Meirav Tal, and two of his children, Or and Yagil, hostage but later released them, the military said. Yaakov was 59 at the time of his death.

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 ...

Yaniv Yaakov, whose brother, Yair Yaakov, nephews, Or and Yagil Yaakov, as well as his brother's girlfriend, Meirav Tal, were taken hostage from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel by ...

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 ...

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 ...