Was Gilad Shalit Married?

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    uneeq
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    According to some results on google, Shalit’s wife was interviewed 5 years ago by FOX when he first got abducted. That would mean that his wife who has never been mentioned in recent news, is not around anymore.

    Does anyone remember if he was married?

    #853505
    flyer
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    I would imagine it meant his mother – he would have been pretty young to have been married.

    #853506
    get a life
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    They probably got him mixed up with Ahud Goldwasser who was abducted a month later in Lebanon.. She is still around.

    #853507
    yichusdik
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    Gilad Shalit was not and is not married. You may perhaps be conflating his story with that of IAF navigator Ron Arad, who was shot down over Lebanon in 1985, was captured by Amal, handed over to Hezbollah, and has not been seen or heard from in 22 years. Over the past five years, partly as a result of the deal made to release the bodies of the soldiers killed in ambush in 2006 at the outset of the second Lebanon war (which happened just a week or two after Shalit was abducted), Hezbollah has released a small amount of information regarding Arad, including a video of him in captivity, but it is all very old. He may have since died in captivity, and it is possible he may still be held in Iran. Please continue to daven for Ron ben Batya.

    #853508
    uneeq
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    TO everyone that thinks I may be mixed up: I am not the one to make this claim that he was married. I will repost the following that I found online:

    Gilad Shalit was a newlywed at the time of his abduction. While tragic events such as what Gilad has had to endure is overbearingly difficult to contend with, it is certainly the young wife that suffers more than her fair share.

    In the first few days after the abduction, Fox News anchor John Gibson spoke with Gilad’s wife, the interview of which was extraordinarily traumatic. Gilad’s wife ran the gamut of emotional distress, hysteria, incoherence, madness, poor girl, to such a degree Fox had no choice but to immediately stop the interview.

    I thought of her, her difficult plight through these past years, but don’t recall a single instance of her ever again being interviewed by the media after the initial Fox interview. And now with the great news of Gilad’s release seemingly in the works, my thoughts of her, the terrible ordeal she’s had to endure now finally hopefully coming to an end began to get my curiosity. I had hoped of getting a glimpse of her on TV along with family members celebrating the joyous news but despite going from channel to channel she was nowhere to be found. I then did an extensive google search specifically “Gilad Shalit’s Wife” in parenthesis but despite going through pages and pages of search results I could not find anything that mentioned his wife. Even worse, was that even after removing the parenthesis from the search term, allowing “wife” to be set free as a search parameter, NOT ONCE, was there any search results linking Gilad Shalit to a wife.

    #853509
    AinOhdMilvado
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    yichusdik…

    “Please continue to daven for Ron ben Batya (Arad).”

    I hope everyone will.

    Everyone should also continue to daven for Yehonatan (Jonathan) ben Malka (Pollard) and Zecharia Baumel another Israeli P.O.W. whose father died never knowing his son’s fate.

    Also, I would suggest to continue davening for a refuah shlaiymah for Gilad ben Aviva (Shalit) who although he is now B”H free, must undoubtedly be carrying severe emotional wounds from 5 years in captivity with those yishmaeli savages.

    #853510
    yichusdik
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    The website that quote came from, freerepublic, is an ultraconservative site, with some pretty far out links and info. I am myself a conservative, but these guys are somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun. The info came from their forums, not a news report, and the John Gibson who is quoted is a talk show host, not a journalist, with a reputation for controversy. I would take it with a large grain of salt.

    Gilad was just 19 years old when he was abducted; he was in the middle of his keva army service. It is extremely unlikely that someone secular would be married that early and before he finished keva.

    #853511
    uneeq
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    yichusdik: Ok I agree with your reasoning. That’s why I asked the question, I wasn’t sure how likely it was to be true.

    However it still somewhat bothers me that even a non-objective website would not have anything to gain by mentioning that gilad shalit had a wife…

    #853514
    get a life
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    I was refering to the fact that they probably got confused between the two.

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