An 85-year-old Israeli Holocaust
survivor held hostage by Hamas for 49 days has said her memories
of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's music helped get her through
her ordeal, thanking the blind crossover superstar who then
thanked her in turn for the "great emotion" she had stirred in
him.
Yadda Adar, abducted by the Islamist militants at the Nir Oz
kibbutz on October 7, and freed on November 24 in one of the
first hostage swaps, said she had found "the strength to go on
by listening to the Bocelli I had in my mind".
Bocelli said he felt "huge emotion" at the story and was "hoping
to meet her one day and to sing just for her, in order to
cancel, as far as possible, the painful memory of the terrible
days that I can't even imagine."
Adar replied that "it's an honour, a great honour, to get a
letter from Bocelli. Who would ever have expected it".
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