Nearly 50 Hadassah members and supporters traveled to Israel for a solidarity mission in January to “bear witness,” said Hadassah National President Carol Ann Schwartz. Schwartz and other organizational leaders hand-delivered a petition to the International Committee of the Red Cross’s Tel Aviv office, demanding the humanitarian organization visit Israeli hostages.

The delegation also met with hostage families and Israeli officials, including President Isaac Herzog (in photo with Schwartz, left, and First Lady Michal Herzog), and they visited communities in the South devastated by the Hamas terror attack as well as the site of the Nova music festival, where they lit candles.