Aviva Siegel’s whole face brightened.
“Of course, I have to,” she said when asked if she allows herself to dream about the day her husband is freed from captivity in Gaza.
“My heart will explode. I will scream. I will jump into the air, and it’s just going to be … I don’t know, I’ll dance. I’m sure that I’ll dance and scream,” Siegel, 63, told The Daily Signal.
Siegel has not seen her husband Keith in over a year; a separation made more difficult by the fact that she knows firsthand what he is going through.
When Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Siegel was taken hostage into Gaza with her husband, who is an American citizen. She was held for 51 days and kept underground in Hamas tunnels before being released in a hostage deal. She describes her days in Hamas captivity as “hell.”
“I touched death, and that’s one of…
