As an Israeli hostage turns 48, his wife waits for blue ticks on her messages

When Omri Miran finally opens his WhatsApp account, he receives the Torrent of Message.

Photograph of his daughter. When she is lying in bed, she stays late at night in her wife. A snapshot of Israeli family life that took place for 18 months.

LISHAY began to send a message after three weeks after Hamas Gunmen took OMRI violently from the house in Kibbutz Nahal OZ on October 7, 2023.

She calls the chat note to OMRI. She lost the number of messages she sent.

“My love, there are too many people to meet when you come back.” She wrote at the end of October 2023.

“Amazing people who help me. Strangers who are as close as possible.”

Three and a half months later, she posted a message from the eldest son of a couple.

“Ronnie just told you to grow well every night. She doesn’t listen to her and can’t see her … You’re really missing in her life and becoming more difficult to deal with your absence.”

Friday was OMRI’s birthday. His second captive. At the age of 48, Lishay, somewhere in the tunnel of Gaza, will write again.

The hostage is said to be alive in July. Lishay’s faith in her husband’s survival seems unwavering, but it is the hardest time of this year. When the Jews celebrated the Bible of Exodus, not only Omi’s birthday, but also the day before the Pesachi (Passover) led the ancestors in Egyptian slavery.

Lishay says, “Pesach is a vacation of freedom.”

“I’m not free. I don’t think anyone in Israel can feel free.”

OMRI’s birthday in the square itself is displayed on Friday.

The poster, which demanded his release, once divided the hostage with 46 and listed it as 47.

Omri’s father Danny wrote 48 over two things.

Nearby, the formulation is ready for a symbolic Passover Seder or a conscious festival.

A long table has been set and the remaining 59 hostages are still in the go (24 of them are believed to be alive).

The square is full of symbols. A tent that represents the Nova Music Festival, where the model of the Gaza Tunnel and hundreds of people died.

Along with the product stall to support the family with a family, this is part of a collective effort to maintain the missing trouble in the public’s eyes and maintain the political pressure on the Israeli government.

LISHAY and her daughters have not yet returned to their homes where family life flew 18 months ago.

But Lishay sometimes returns to Nahal Oz to communicate with her husband.

Kibutz is only 700 meters from the border of Gazawa. It’s as close as she can arrive at OMRI.

“I can feel him there,” she says. “I can talk to him.”

The border was quiet after the armistice came into effect in mid -January. Lishay gave hope despite knowing that OMRI’s age was not the first person to be released.

But the ceasefire ended in two months. The border areas that the Israelites call the “Gaza Pocket” once again repercusced on the sound of the war, dominating the deepest fear of all hostage families.

She said, “I was scared.”

LISHAY, like some hostage families, is noticed from condemning the government. But when she realizes that the war has resumed, she says, “I was really angry.”

Last week, when the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Victor Orban in Hungary, he said that they discussed the Hungary hostage, a mention of Omi’s double Israel-Hungary citizenship.

For lishay, it is stabbing.

“I was really hard to see this,” she says. “OMRI has a name. He is not just hostage.”

In the Passover Message, which was delivered on Friday, Netanahoo once again promised to the family that the hostage would return and the enemies of Israel would be defeated.

In recent years, I’ve been talking about another ceasefire transaction, but it’s not imminent.

LISHAY mentioned his first ceasefire contract in November 2023, saying, “The last time,” he said, “We waited for more than a year for another contract. Now we will wait for another year. They cannot survive there.”

It seems that the WhatsApp message for OMRI is now remained in the state without opening.

But it doesn’t stop looking for a gray mite that turns blue.

“I know that it will happen someday.”