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Freed Hostage Eliya Cohen Marries Nova Survivor Ziv Abud After 505 Days in Captivity

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of the wedding of freed hostage Eliya Cohen and Nova festival survivor Ziv Abud: a bride in a long white lace gown with a high collar walks arm in arm at the centre of the frame with a groom in a white dinner jacket and black bow tie, the two turned towards each other and smiling, slender trees and overhanging branches frame them on both sides, and open sunlit countryside falls away to a pale hazy horizon behind, drawn in warm ochre and slate-blue chalk an

Eliya Cohen and Ziv Abud married Wednesday evening at Ronit Farm before about 1,000 relatives and friends, after a decade together and 505 days in which he was held hostage in Gaza. Former Chief Rabbi David Lau officiated the chuppah, and singer Amir Benayoun accompanied the couple as they entered. Both were in the shelter near Re'im on October 7, 2023, where Aner Shapira threw back grenades and saved many of those inside before he was killed; Abud survived and Cohen was abducted. The couple asked Shapira's father, Moshe, to write their ketubah. They called the wedding a closing of a circle that is difficult to describe in words.

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