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Michael Mitchell, a friend of Silver’s, told the Canadian Jewish News that Silver was on the phone with her sister back home in Winnipeg when Hamas invaded Israel on Saturday morning.
“There was screaming and yelling and Vivian was fighting and then the phone went dead,” Mitchell said. “So, it’s pretty clear that they got to her one way or another.”
Silver, 74, was born in Winnipeg but immigrated to Israel in 1974. She, along with her late husband and two children, settled in Kibbutz Be’eri, which is located less than five kilometres from the eastern border with Gaza and was among the first to be hit by the invasion.
“Vivian’s captivity is yet another heinous Hamas war crime. All Canadians and people of conscience around the world should be calling for her release and condemning Hamas criminality,” wrote Irwin Cotler, chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, on X, formerly Twitter.
Michael Mitchell, a friend of Silver’s, told the Canadian Jewish News that Silver was on the phone with her sister back home in Winnipeg when Hamas invaded Israel on Saturday morning.
“There was screaming and yelling and Vivian was fighting and then the phone went dead,” Mitchell said. “So, it’s pretty clear that they got to her one way or another.”
Silver, 74, was born in Winnipeg but immigrated to Israel in 1974. She, along with her late husband and two children, settled in Kibbutz Be’eri, which is located less than five kilometres from the eastern border with Gaza and was among the first to be hit by the invasion.
“Vivian’s captivity is yet another heinous Hamas war crime. All Canadians and people of conscience around the world should be calling for her release and condemning Hamas criminality,” wrote Irwin Cotler, chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, on X, formerly Twitter.
“The paradigm that we’ve been living under for all these years is that only war will bring us peace, and that has been proven false time and time again,” Silver told Forbes in 2021. “We can’t put up with this anymore. We can’t be sacrificing our families for no purpose because there is no purpose to this.