Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called rescued hostage Noa Argamani to check in on her following the daring IDF rescue operation on Saturday.
Noa expressed to the Prime Minister how glad she was to be able to speak Hebrew again.
Netanyahu's message
Netanyahu told her how happy he was to see she was back home with her father and that she should hug her mother for him.
Audio of Noa Argamani speaking with PM Netanyahu:“I haven’t spoken Hebrew in so long” pic.twitter.com/NodYn4YQmT
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Noa's mother suffers from terminal brain cancer and has repeatedly expressed her wish to see her daughter again before she dies.
Netanyahu asked how Argamani was and told her, "We didn't give up on you for one second."
He added, "I don't know if you believed in that, but we had faith, and I am happy it [the rescue] came to be."
Argamani became well recognized when harrowing footage of her being taken into Gaza on the back of a motorcycle as she reached back out to her captured boyfriend, Avinatan Or, circulated around the world.
Or still remains in captivity, along with 115 individuals taken hostage in Gaza.