Braslavski was abducted from the Nova Music Festival, where he was employed as a security guard, when Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking hundreds of others hostage.

An Israeli hostage who was released in October has told an Israeli television channel he was subjected to sexual violence during his two-year captivity in Gaza by Palestinian militants -- the first male hostage to publicly make such an accusation.

Cooper's wife eulogizes him as a guy who wrote poems and whistled melodies, while Baruch's mother remembers her son as 'a traveler, chess player, kayaker, scholar, nerd'