The heart knows no greater anguish than the uncertainty of a loved one’s fate. For nearly two years, a mother and a sister have lived suspended in this agonizing limbo, their tears tracing a path across oceans, from Nepal to the distant land of Israel. They are Padma and Pushpa Joshi, and their desperate quest is for Bipin Joshi, a son, a brother, a Nepali citizen, tragically caught in a war not his own.

October 7, 2023. This date is etched not just into the Joshi family’s soul but into the collective memory of Nepal itself as a black day. Bipin, like many ambitious young people, had journeyed to Israel for an agricultural training and internship program, dreaming of a brighter future. He had been there barely a month when the unthinkable struck. On that fateful day, Hamas militants launched their brutal assault. Of the seventeen Nepali students doing an agriculture internship, ten were cruelly murdered. Amidst this horrific violence, our friend Bipin Joshi vanished, taken hostage by Hamas.

The scenes from that day are deeply heart-wrenching. Trapped in a shelter at Kibbutz Alumim, terrified Nepali students, unable to distinguish between Hebrew and Arabic and knowing little beyond English, pleaded desperately, “Please don’t kill us, we........

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