Former hostage Agam Berger in the Wall Street Journal: "I was kidnapped by Hamas, taken to Gaza and held hostage for 482 days. Today I am home, healthy and whole in body, soul and spirit. This Passover, I am reflecting on my freedom... My fellow scout Liri Albag and I marked Passover together last year. Held in a small room with no natural light, we did what we could to set the holiday mood. We cleaned our room and adorned the table with napkins and other small “decorations” made from scraps of paper. As a surprise, Liri wrote me a makeshift Passover Haggadah, the text that recounts our ancestors’ journey out of slavery. Throughout captivity we were moved from tunnels to apartments and, in some, had limited access to television and radio. On Passover we heard that people had set us a table in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. Liri listened to her mother’s voice on the airwaves. We cried, then sat down to eat our own “bread of affliction,” the Haggadah’s description of the matzah our fathers ate in Egypt. Our corn flour pitas united us with them."
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