Another Year Has Passed, Gilad Still Isn’t With Us!

Noam Schalit tells Israel Radio gov’t must pay the price to bring his son home, as he prepares to spend the Rosh Hashana Holiday in protest tent.

The Schalit family will spend the eve of the Jewish New Year in their Jerusalem protest tent, Noam, father of captive soldier Gilad Schalit told Israel Radio in an interview Wednesday.

“Another year has passed and Gilad is still not with us,” said Noam. “We are in the protest tent, maybe one of the last that remain in Israel, and we are still here. Committees of professors won’t help us, we need leaders to make hard decisions that involve taking risks.”

After the countless meetings held between the Schalits and the government, and their tireless efforts to raise awareness, Noam said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must return Gilad, who has been held hostage by Hamas for five years.

“They sent him on a mission almost 2000 days ago, and they haven’t found a way to return him,” Noam said. “The price [of returning him] doesn’t change, the price isn’t going down. They have to pay the price to bring him home. READ MORE...