As Hanukkah dawns, a deal that could bring my grandfather and 99 other hostages home from Hamas captivity after more than a year of suffering may finally be within reach.
The same man who survived the horrors of the Farhud in Iraq as a child in 1941 is now living through another nightmare.
Until that black Saturday of Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists shot through my grandparents' door and walls before entering. They handcuffed my grandfather and took him away in his sleepwear.
Last Hanukkah was our first without him. We gathered at my aunt's house to light candles with my grandmother. Everything felt wrong and sad.
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