In a gesture of compassion that could be interpreted as an act of defiance against the inflexibility of the , President Isaac Herzog on Monday awarded special certificates of recognition to the families of Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka and Alon Shamriz, who were among the hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The trio had succeeded in escaping their captors, and were within reasonable distance of the Israeli border when shot by an Israeli combat unit which mistook them for terrorists even though they were waving a makeshift white flag and were yelling in Hebrew. Shamriz, who , had ...