hostage
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In addition, five months ago he signed an executive order beefing up the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
"Hostage" has become an instant bestseller in Israel, selling over 100,000 copies.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
His family installed a piano, his instrument of choice, at a courtyard in Tel Aviv known as Hostage Square.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
At the so-called Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on Thursday, Israelis demonstrated some of that rage.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025
Then said one of them: ‘Which of all you maidens is the Hostage of the House of the Rose?’
From The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men by Morris, William
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