Famed Ba’al Chessed Shai Graucher has begun visiting the released hostages.

Segev Kalfon told Graucher that he asked his captors to watch the release of Ohad Ben Ami.

The captors allowed him to watch it. “I was happy for him,” Kalfon said. “I imagined how it would feel when it happened to me.”

He added: “I had a dream that I would stand on the stage, surrounded by Hamas terrorists and shout, ‘Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad.’”

Kalfon cried tears of emotion as Graucher presented him with a gift.

He told Graucher that he felt emunah in Gaza. “In the darkest place, I succeeded in seeing the light.”

He added that he observed Yom Kippur while in captivity. “Emunah is the basis,” he said.

When Kalfon answered what message he wants to convey to the public, he responded, “Emunah, emunah, emunah—strengthen your emunah. And Am Yisrael should unite—that’s the most important thing.”

Segev’s father told i24News that Segev experienced extreme starvation, to the extent of dreaming about food at night.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)