Mizmor Le’Toda, Shehecheyanu Outside Home Of Agam Berger After Her Release

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Agam Berger, the last of the surveillance soldiers who was being held by Hamas, was released by the terrorist organization, has now reached Israel and is being transferred to her parents.

Agam’s mother Meirav had prayed that her daughter’s release not cause desecration of the Shabbat, and she was indeed released on a weekday as opposed to the previous phase of the release on Shabbat which included four of her friends from the surveillance unit.

Agam herself kept Shabbat and did not eat meat during her days in captivity because it was not kosher, according to Liri Elbag, the surveillance soldier who was with her. She told Agam’s mother Meirav that “You and your daughter made exactly the same [spiritual] journey from opposite sides of the fence.” Liri also told Meirav that Agam had been pale in recent times because she had refrained from eating many foods.

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Friends of Agam said Mizmor Le’Todah and Shehecheyanu with a Sefer Torah after her release from captivity. They also sang songs of faith and hope and wore T-shirts with the words Derech Emunah Bacharti [I have chosen the path of faith].