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  1. Mar 30, 2022 · Noam Shalit, the father of former Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for five years, died Wednesday from cancer at the age of 68.

  2. Mar 31, 2022 · TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Noam Shalit, the father of a captive Israeli soldier who battled for five years to free his son from his Hamas captors, has died. He was 68. A spokesman for Rambam hospital in northern Israel said Shalit died late Wednesday of cancer.

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  3. Mar 30, 2022 · Noam Shalit died Wednesday, at age 68, exactly 13 years after moving with his wife into a tent outside the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem to call attention to his son’s...

  4. Jan 11, 2007 · Mr. Shalit, a 52-year-old deeply private industrial engineer, has seen his quiet life in a village in the Western Galilee transform in ways he never imagined. He has reached out to the...

  5. Mar 31, 2022 · Noam Shalit, the father of a captive Israeli soldier who battled for five years to free his son from his Hamas captors, has died. He was 68.

  6. Mar 31, 2022 · Noam Shalit, the father of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Hamas and held for more than five years, died on Wednesday at the age of 68. Shali, who grappled with cancer, passed away at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, said a spokesman for the hospital.

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  8. Commentator Nahum Barnea of Yedioth Aharonoth said that under the circumstances, considering that the alternative may have been to let Shalit die in captivity, the deal was unavoidable, despite its attendant security risks.