Tel Aviv — It was early Saturday afternoon when the messages started coming. Like rapid fire. “Four hostages have been rescued. Alive.”

Not long after, once the rescue helicopter had lifted off — managing to evade anti-aircraft fire — their names were released: Noa Argamani, Andrei Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv and Almog Meir Jan.

Argamani has become something of an iconic figure, having been captured on a video of her abduction on October 7 that went viral globally. Terror seared on her face, she screamed for her partner, Avinatan Or, 30, who was being force-marched, bound, to Gaza. Utterly helpless. He remains in Hamas hell.