Rachel Goldberg-Polin marks the days since her son, Hersh, was kidnapped by Hamas in Jerusalem. Hersh was last seen at a music festival in southern Israel where he was abducted along with other attendees.
Every morning, before she's even out of her pyjamas, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tears a piece of masking tape off the roll, grabs a marking pen and in thick black strokes writes down the number of days her son, Hersh, has been missing. "I find it so remarkable how nauseating it is every single time,'' she said. "And it's good. I don't want to get used to it. I don't want anybody to get used to the fact that these people are missing.
'' Rachel Goldberg wears a sticker with the number 98 on it, marking the days since her son, Hersh Goldgerg-Polin, was kidnapped by Hamas in Jerusalem. (AP) Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was last seen October 7, when militants loaded him into the back of a pickup truck with other people who were abducted from a southern Israel music festival where over 300 attendees were killed. The native of Berkeley, California, lost part of an arm when the attackers tossed grenades into the shelter where a group of young people had taken refug
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