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    ‘So good you’re home’: Discharged from hospital, 5 ex-hostages welcomed home by masses

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    Recently released hostages Segev Kalfon, Bar Kuperstein, Eitan Mor, Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal were received jubilantly at their homes on Sunday after they were discharged from hospitals after days of treatment, following their more than two years in captivity where they were tortured, starved and stuck in isolation.

    Kalfon, who was discharged from the Tel Aviv-area Sheba Hospital last Monday, stayed with his family for six more days at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan, before heading home to Dimona in the Negev Desert.

    Many of the hostages’ families have stayed at Kfar Maccabiah while their loved ones recuperate at nearby hospitals, and the released hostages have often joined their families there before their final release.

    Kalfon, 26, blew kisses as he boarded a minibus headed to his native Dimona, where his grandmother was awaiting him in a retirement home.

    Freed hostage Segev Kalfon leaves Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, October 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

    Well-wishers lined the streets of the southern city, which was draped in US and Israeli flags and blue and white balloons.

    “Segev, it’s so good that you’ve come home,” read one of the banners greeting him home.

    Sitting in the passenger seat, Kalfon grinned, waved and pointed at the crowd.

    “This is what I waited for the most. I waited for home,” Kalfon told Channel 12. “People of Israel, pay attention — this is unity.”

    “The war is not over,” he added. “We have hostages who are still there.”

    Kuperstein, 23, who was discharged from Sheba at the same time as Kalfon, also left Kfar Maccabiah on Sunday.

    A resident of Holon in central Israel, Kuperstein traveled home via the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak.

    Kuperstein’s mother Julia, who began writing a syndicated weekly column in Haredi press during her son’s captivity, had pledged after Bar’s release to pass through Bnei Brak on the way home so that Bar could meet “the incredible Haredi society that has taken us under its wing.”

    In Bnei Brak, excited children ran alongside Kuperstein’s motorcade, and he was greeted by the dancing and singing of young Haredi men as he arrived at a meeting with the mayor and an eminent rabbi. Kuperstein told them how his religious faith grew in captivity.

    “I had been traditional, I would do kiddush and stuff like that, but I didn’t keep shabbat or wear tzitzit,” Kuperstein, told Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, head of the city’s storied Slavodka Yeshiva, referring to the sanctification of the sabbath and a ritual garment, respectively. “These two years made me realize that it’s important and that I need to grow, and my faith has grown.”

    Three hostages discharged from Beilinson hospital

    Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson) in Petah Tikva, near Bnei Brak, announced Sunday that it had discharged David, Gilboa-Dalal and Mor.

    They will begin outpatient rehabilitation in the hospital’s returned hostages unit, and will continue receiving all the support they need from hospital staff, the medical center said.

    As he arrived in the West Bank settlement of Alfei Menashe, Gilboa-Dalal, 23, was greeted by neighbors and friends, waving flags, cheering and holding up phones to capture the released hostage’s triumphant homecoming.

    Wrapped in an Israeli flag, Gilboa-Dalal leaned out the window of his van, smiling and hugging well-wishers.

    “It’s so good you’re home,” they yelled, as he blew kisses.

    “Thank you to everyone, it’s incredible,” Gilboa-Dalal said. “I’m going to be with my family now.”

    In the nearby city of Kfar Saba, his good friend David, 24, was greeted by residents dancing in the street, singing “Am Yisrael Chai” and filming the moment.

    Freed hostage Evyatar David arrives at his home in Kfar Saba, October 26, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

    Local police, who were accompanying the van that carried David and his family back to their apartment, tried to clear the street to let the convoy through. David waved and blew kisses from inside the van, as residents attached balloons to the slow-moving vehicle and tried to toss bouquets through the open windows.

    Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who lives in the neighboring town of Ra’anana, also arrived at the David family’s home to greet the returning hostage, as the joyous crowd continued dancing and waving Israeli flags outside.

    On social media, Bennett posted the celebratory Shehechyanu blessing, with a picture of himself kissing David’s head.

    Crowds were also dancing in the West Bank’s Gush Etzion junction as Mor, 25, passed through en route to the settlement of Kiryat Arba, where a throng of neighbors and friends gathered outside his home.

    “Thank you all for coming to celebrate with me,” he told the crowd at the Gush junction, hailing the “Gushniks,” Jewish residents of the area, who came out to welcome him. “Thank you to all the security forces, thank you to all the bereaved families.”

    Freed hostage Eitan Mor arrives at the Gush Etzion junction, October 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

    His father Zvika added: “What we see here is the natural state of the people of Israel. The people of Israel are connected; the people of Israel are united; the people of Israel love.”

    All five were abducted from the Reim-area Nova rave on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

    Mor, who was a guard at the rave, and Kalfon, Kuperstein, David and Gilboa-Dalal, who were attendees, were among the last 20 living hostages who were released on October 13 as part of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire. The remains of 13 slain hostages are still in Gaza, including the body of a soldier killed fighting in the 2014 war there.

    Diana Bletter contributed to this report.



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