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Before She Became a Hostage in Gaza, She Was My Carmel Gat

My friend Carmel Gat didn't peek at life through the cracks between her fingers but looked straight at it, inquisitively. Her life was too short, but full of love. My Carmel, now you are everybody's

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Vita Kairys
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The last time I spoke with Carmel was on the morning of October 7. We corresponded in brief messages. I knew she had planned to spend the Simhat Torah holiday with her family on Kibbutz Be'eri but I wasn't sure she'd gone there.

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