You never forget the moment you sit across from a mother whose child was brutally taken by terrorists - and still, somehow, she’s the strongest person in the room.

I met a softly spoken, composed, fragile Viki Cohen in Israel earlier this year.

Her 20-year-old son, Nimrod, had been taken on October 7.

Every morning she woke not knowing what - or if - he’d eaten, if he was warm, if he was scared, if he was safe.

But she refused to give up. Every single day. Praying. Protesting. Hoping.

“Who wouldn’t do this?” she asked. “I am his mother. He will always be my baby. I just want him home.”

Today, it happened - Nimrod Cohen came home.

The soldier whose story became a symbol of endurance and grief is back where he belongs, in the arms of his family.

After 737 days in captivity, his name

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