The piano had clearly been through hell. This instrument once made beautiful music at the hands of Oded Lifshitz, an 83-year-old whose body spent 503 days in Hamas custody. And so it can never be a mere piano again. It is a relic of martyrdom, an artifact of an ongoing war -- a hell on Earth for hostages and families living a prolonged agony. It can never be forgotten. Lifshitz was kidnapped alongside his wife, Yocheved, from their home in the Nir Oz kibbutz. He had been shot in his hand and was lying at the edge of his property the last time she saw him. The proper response to the confirmed murder of Oded is: May his memory be a blessing. Which means we must know how he lived and how he was murdered.

Lifshitz's wife was among the first hostages released. There's a video of Lifzhitz........

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