Saving Abigail

The True Story of the Abduction and Rescue of a Three-Year-Old Hostage

By: Liz Hirsh Naftali

Narrated by: Liz Hirsh Naftali

This is the dramatic story of what happened to an innocent three-year-old child on October 7, 2023, and one family member’s great efforts to rescue her from Hamas terrorists.

Saving Abigail is a true story about a little girl taken hostage by Hamas the morning of October 7, 2023, after thousands of terrorists breached Israel by land, sea, and air. That day, Hamas slaughtered 1,200 men, women, and children, and 246 innocent people were dragged across the border into Gaza against their will.

Among them was three-year-old Abigail Mor Edan, whose border community was ransacked by fighters going from house to house and killing, raping, and abducting civilians from their homes. Abigail’s mother and father were murdered in front of their children, and Abigail—the youngest—was abducted.

With no prior experience or road map for how to save a hostage from captivity, Abigail’s great aunt Liz Hirsh Naftali undertook an international effort to share her niece’s face and story—with the US government, bipartisan congressional leaders, and world leaders—finding unlikely allies and supporters along the way. Though not a diplomat, politician, or military expert, Liz was determined to extricate this child from an ongoing geopolitical nightmare and free her from the Hamas terrorists who held her.

©2024 Liz Hirsh Naftali (P)2024 Post Hill Press

Missed the mark could have been so astounding and meaningful.

Firstly, I have so much empathy and respect for every hostage family, and all that they have endured, for their strength, for their perseverance, and for their endless fight. Thank God, they have returned to us. Until the last one, Ran we are waiting for you.

However, this book truly missed the mark.

1. Instead of telling an unbelievably compelling story, it read like a campaign plug for the Democratic Party.

2. Perhaps I missed it, but I did not once hear the author talk about the “innocent Palestinians” who breached the borders and the Nova festival—-raping, kidnapping , burning alive, and murdering innocent Israelis. She mistakenly referred to everyone as Hamas. And where was the mention of UNRWA and UN complicity.

3. Finally, the flat affect and even mispronunciation of key Israeli words and people was astounding to me, given her connections to the land.

It’s a shame. This story could have been immensely powerful if it wasn’t driven by a need to defend the Democratic Party here in America.