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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: How murdered peace activist Vivian Silver's sons find purpose through grief
Description: For five weeks after Oct. 7, 2023, the two sons of Canadian Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver thought she was among the hostages from Kibbutz Be’eri who had been kidnapped into Gaza by Hamas terrorists.
But after her house was destroyed that day, and they received no further word about her fate, her sons Chen, an archeologist based in Connecticut, and Yonatan, an Israeli social worker, threw themselves into campaigning for their mother’s release, while also channelling her spirit in advocating for a non-violent solution to the war.
In late November 2023, Israeli forensic experts notified Silver’s family that her re...