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Yehuda searches through a downstairs room looking for a plastic bag containing the most precious of objects.
It's a small, blackened Rubik's Cube that belonged to Yehuda's son Nimrod - one of 20 living Israeli hostages still being held by the terrorist group <strong>Hamas</strong> in <strong>Gaza</strong>.
It was found in Nimrod’s burnt-out tank after the October 7th attacks.
“He likes PlayStation and Rubik’s Cube,” says Nimrod’s mother, Vicky.
“They found the Rubik’s Cube in the tank. It was complete but a little bit dark and they brought it back to us.
Vicky Cohen
We spoke to Nimrod’s parents Yehuda and Vicky about the emotional rollercoaster hostage families in Israel are going through – as hope rises and fades of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
“I still have hope that maybe I will see Nimrod again,” says Vicky.
“It almost breaks my heart because I still had expectation,” she says – in spite of the latest failure to find resolution in talks between Israel and Hamas in Doha.
“But I still have hope that maybe something good will happen,” she says.
Nimrod’s charred Rubik’s Cube
Vicky says: “We heard [during] the last weeks, President Trump saying we will hear about a ceasefire soon – next week – in a few days.
“We heard our prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] say visiting Washington and meeting Trump was very successful – and heard members of the coalition talking about our prime minister eventually understanding he needed to end the war. But until now nothing.
The delegation coming back to Israel doesn’t mean a total collapse of ceasefire talks, but US envoy Steve Witcoff said the response to the latest ceasefire proposals by Hamas showed “a lack of desire”.
And so the rollercoaster of emotion for the hostage families continues.
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