David Nagar News Today

A Bar Mitzvah is meant to be a time of ceremony and celebration marking a child’s coming of age, but for one family on Saturday, the young man at the center of the ritual may have already been forced to grow up far too fast after his older brother was one of dozens of people taken hostage by Hamas one week ago.

It has been one week since Hamas militants swept through southern Israel, killing people in the hundreds and taking dozens more hostage in an unprecedented attack that shook the nation and shocked the world — and families with loved ones missing are still desperate for answers.