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Abera Mengistu

Gilad Schalit-style prisoner swap for Gaza hostages 'too high risk' - Yair Lapid

The video of Avera Mengistu, if confirmed to be real and recent, would be the first indication in recent years that he is still alive.

|By103FM, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The parents of Avera Mengistu join family and friends in a protest near the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 2016.
Leah Goldin, mother of Hadar, speaks at a press conference, August 5, 2018

Goldin, Shaul families told gov't negotiating prisoner exchange with Hamas

'To miss the opportunity now, would be a national irresponsibility'

|ByTZVI JOFFRE
A protest calling for the return of Avera Mengistu

Israeli official: There will be no second Schalit deal

Yaron Blum, charged with returning Israelis captive in Gaza, told the Knesset that there will be no further prisoner exchanges with Hamas.

|BySAMUEL THROPE
Le nouveau leader du Hamas, Yahya Sinwar

Hamas leader places prisoner swap deal 'in Israel’s court’

Details of Egyptian brokered proposal emerge, Israeli sources call move a “cynical ploy."

|ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Liberman: We will not 'repeat the mistake' of freeing terrorists

The parents of Israeli officer Hadar Goldin, who has been missing since the 2014 battle of Rafah, stated that they "feel abandoned by the government".

AUGUST 27, 2017
Avigdor Liberman