Sagui Dekel Chen

Kidnap survivor, 35

Nir Oz

Sagui fought against the terrorists who invaded his kibbutz and then went missing. He is married to Avital and is the father of 6-year-old Bar and 2-year-old Gili; at the time of the attack, his wife was pregnant with their third child. Sagui and Avital run a grocery store called "Columbus," a bus that travels between the southern villages lacking such a service. His mother, Naomi Dekel Chen, was abducted while on a truck heading toward Gaza, but an IDF vehicle intervened, allowing her to escape by pretending to be dead whenever she encountered terrorists. Their third daughter was born while he remained in captivity.

After 498 days in captivity, Sagui was released as part of a ceasefire and hostage release agreement