900 Days
Thursday, December 11th marks the 900th day that Gilad Shalit has been held captive in the Gaza strip. His abduction, followed shortly after by the abductions of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, spurred the Second War in Lebanon in 2006. To the best of anyone’s knowledge, Shalit is still alive.
Below is a video featuring middle-schoolers in New York reading the English language version of a book called “When the Shark and the Fish First Met,” a story that Shalit wrote when he was a boy. Shorashim’s Club Israel has used this book on many occasions to teach Shalit’s story and raise awareness for him and all the missing soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces.