Avinatan Or wraps an arm around his partner Noa Argamani's shoulders.

She flashes a warm smile as he ducks his head and kisses her on the cheek.

It is an embrace two years in the making, with the pair finally reunited after being torn apart on a fateful autumn day.

Noa and Avinatan were among the dozens of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during the terror organisation's surprise attack on October 7, 2023.

Footage of their abduction became an enduring illustration of the horrors endured by Israelis that day.

Now safely in each other's arms, a chapter has closed on those harrowing two years.

Thrown on the back of a motorbike

Noa and Avinatan's lives changed the day they went to a music festival in the western Negev desert.

The event, held on the Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret, was

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