SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — In a patch of grass Saturday at Balboa Park sat two long tables set for Shabbat dinner. The 229 chairs were empty, but each represented a person taken by Hamas on Oct. 7 in Israel ...

Families of Americans held hostage by Hamas amid the conflict in Gaza are urging others to reserve an empty seat at their Thanksgiving gatherings in honor of those yet to return home. The symbolic ...

It’s been five weeks, 42 days to be exact, since more than 240 hostages were taken from their homes in Israel by Hamas militants during the Oct. 7 attacks. For Omer Neutra’s family in Plainview, ...

A long dining table has stood in front of Old Union for more than a week, each of its empty chairs reserved for one of the 224 hostages kidnapped by Hamas in October — the number has since been ...

Oct. 20 (UPI) --In Tel Aviv and other Israeli communities on Friday, families of those held hostage by Hamas in Gaza set up empty Shabbat tables set for more than 200, symbolizing the missing. Setting ...