A California family is waiting on tenterhooks for the release of their nephew held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Hamas. The family of Amit Shani say the teen was ...

LOS ANGELES – In a roundtable held at his offices in Santa Monica on Friday, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger met with the families of three Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza.

Nir Shani felt a strange sense of relief when he learned that Hamas militants had kidnapped his son and held him hostage. More than 1,200 had died during the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, which left Shani ...

“The only reason I can tell you this story, the only reason I don’t cry,” said Tal Shani, “is because I don’t have tears anymore.” Shani lives in Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel, less than 3 miles ...