Aviva Siegel, a former hostage and the wife of American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, said Tuesday that she had witnessed and experienced torture by the Hamas terrorists who abducted her and roughly 250 other Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023.
Siegel, 63, spoke with Marc Beckman of the Some Future Day podcast about her experiences. She was released in an eight-day truce last November — one that Hamas later broke — but Keith remains behind, one of the “American Seven” who are still in Gaza, three of whom are thought to be alive.
Siegel was born in South Africa and moved to Israel when she was a child. She met Siegel when he was a student from North Carolina visiting Israel. He remained in Israel after they fell in love, and the two of them eventually settled on a communal farm in southern Israel, Kibbutz Kfar…
