The story of. quickly went viral Yaffa Adarone of people kidnapped by Hamas and who passed as hostage over a month. During that captivity, she has sang Andrea Bocelli and the singer, once he knew her story, wrote to her a letter.
The story of 85-year-old Yaffa Adar kidnapped on October 7
According to the story told by the Israeli investigative program Channel 12’s Uvda85-year-old Yaffa Adar was also among those kidnapped during the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 at Kibbutz Nir Oz. The images of her being heavily loaded onto a golf cart by militiamen went around the world.
The woman, Holocaust survivorpassed in captivity 49 days before being released on the 24th November in one of the first hostage exchanges between the Israeli government and the Palestinian militia. Speaking about how she lived those days, she said that the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli helped her.
An image of the moved 85-year-old from the video released by Ansa
“Every morning I sang To myself his songs and I thought, ‘God, maybe this will make me have a good day. Maybe today will bring my liberation,” said Yaffa Adar. That moment has finally arrived and not only that, his story also reached the person concerned.
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Andrea Bocelli’s letter to the former Hamas hostage
The same program managed to get the story of the 85-year-old Hamas hostage to Andrea Bocelli, via producer Gad Oron. Once he became aware of it, the tenor sent her a letter sent by the same broadcaster.
Bocelli was in the United States during his staff’s lighting ceremony candele di Hannukkah and wrote: “Dearest Mrs. Yaffa Adar, I wish I could hug you! I would like to thank you for the emotion that your story aroused in all the people who had the privilege of listening to it and especially in me.”
Then, the singer states that “I never would have thought That my humble voicethis great gift that I undeservedly received from heaven, could one day prove to be so important“. There is no prize or applause, she adds, “that is as valuable as your words, which I assure you I will never forget”.
Emotion for the video of the woman honored by the tenor
In the letter, read and translated by his niece to Yaffa Adar, Bocelli writes again: “From now on, I will sing with renewed enthusiasm, with renewed faith, with new energy. I hope to be able to meet you one day and sing, just for you, whatever you want, so as to erase, as much as possible, the painful memory of terrible days.”
The singer said he admired her courage and sent his greetings from across the ocean, “full of gratitude, admiration and affection”. The reaction of the woman kidnapped by Hamas was moving: “Wow, what an honor! Andrea Bocelli!” he said, and then hugged the letter to his chest. Her story, inevitably, is making the rounds on the web.
Photo source: ANSA-IPA
2023-12-22 20:36:00
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