Amelie Botbol | JNS

They have to learn how to live again — it’s like being reborn,” Tamar Pfeffer-Gik, a clinical dietitian at Rabin Medical Center–Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, told JNS on Oct. 15 about hostages returned from Gaza after two years in Hamas captivity.

Five hostages freed on Oct. 13 — Evyatar David, 24; Guy Gilboa Dalal, 22; Alon Ohel, 24; Avinatan Or, 32; and Eitan Mor, 25 — are recovering on the third floor of Rabin Medical Center’s Schneider Children’s Medical Center. Pfeffer-Gik is part of the multidisciplinary team caring for them.

“Several helicopters landed right in front of us,” recalled Dr. Michal Steinman, director of nursing at Beilinson Hospital. “The first arrived around 12:30 p.m., the last between 5 and 6. The unit had stood empty since earlier this

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