Family of Israeli hostages meet with lawmakers as Kemp rejects calls to expedite antisemitism bill

Family of Israeli hostages met with Georgia lawmakers as part of “Bring Them Home” events being held to rally American support for the Israeli hostages and demand their release. (Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder)

Rimon Kirsht didn’t speak or look into the camera during a short video released Monday morning by Hamas showing three Israeli women who are among more than 230 Israeli hostages. 

No one in the family had heard from her since the morning of Oct. 7 when Kirsht texted her mother that her kibbutz was under siege and then later sent a voice memo saying she loved her mother and that she was sorry she was not there with her.

That afternoon, there was evidence of a struggle at Kirsht’s home, but no sign of the 36-year-old and her husband.