NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Jonathan Dekel-Chen about his son, Sagui. He's an American, taken on Oct. 7, and still being held hostage in Gaza. We're following news out of Israel today.

JERUSALEM — Sagui Dekel-Chen, an American Israeli who refurbished old buses into mobile tech classrooms for underserved children, has not met his third daughter, who was born in southern Israel ...

Sagui Dekel-Chen was released Saturday from Hamas captivity, after 498 days of torture. "You're my hero," his wife Avital told him during their first embrace. Sagui said, "You are heroes, look how ...

Sagui Dekel-Chen, a dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, is one of the three Israeli hostages Hamas released over the weekend after nearly 500 days of captivity. As part of the fragile ceasefire deal ...

Sagui Dekel-Chen's third child was born following his capture by Hamas. The father of an Israeli-American man who has been held hostage by Hamas since the group's ...

American-Israeli hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen spent “the vast majority” of his almost 500 days in captivity not knowing that his family had survived Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack or that his ...

American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, was among three hostages released by Hamas on Saturday morning after being held in captivity in Gaza for almost a year and a half. The other two hostages ...

American-Israeli captive Sagui Dekel Chen, 36, is escorted by Hamas fighters as he is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Feb. 15, 2025.

Hamas released three more Israeli hostages Saturday — including an American father of three — preserving the fragile cease-fire agreement that nearly imploded after the terrorists threatened ...