Newly released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit smartly saluted his commander in chief Tuesday after he set foot on Israeli soil for the first time in five years. “Hello, Gilad,” Prime Minister ...

July 2005 - Begins his military service with IDF’s tank corps. June 25, 2006 - Shalit is captured by Palestinian militants. June 28, 2006 - Israel launches a military incursion into southern ...

Former solider Gilad Shalit recently met with the families of several Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 and shared with them how he endured five years as a hostage of the Gaza-ruling ...

A lawmaker from the haredi Orthodox Shas Party said Gilad Shalit should have spent his first Shabbat of freedom not at the beach but praying in synagogue. Gilad Shalit’s release from more than ...

Newly released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit began his first full day as a free man by taking a stroll Wednesday with his mother. And he had a big smile on his face. “Gilad feels good,” his dad ...

Gilad Shalit was "in better shape than what we had feared," Zvi Shalit reportedly added. In the television interview, Shalit said he found out a week ago that he was to be released.

Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held captive for the past five years, had been reached. The exact timing of the actual exchange is still unclear, but could be as soon as next week. As Joel ...

President Shimon Peres met on Wednesday with the family of Gilad Shalit in Jerusalem and praised the deal reached between Israel and Hamas that includes Shalit’s release. “I thank the Prime ...

That is exactly what happened last week in Israel. In 2006, a 19-year-old from northern Israel named Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas in a cross-border raid. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the abduction of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured and imprisoned by the military wing of Hamas from 2006 to 2011. July 2005 – Begins his military service ...

Gilad Shalit, who was seized by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid in 2006, said in a rare interview that he feared that if he were left too long, his captors “would make me disappear.” ...