Nadene Goldfoot
Ran Gvili is the son of Itzik Gvili, but he is also a son of Israel.
Ran Gvili served in the Israel Police Special Patrol Unit.(Israel's specialized police units train for unpredictable and high-risk scenarios in a mass casualty event in a residential area).
On the morning of October 7 he ran out of his house (even though he was still recovering from a broken shoulder) to save lives. He saved many people from the Nova dance party and then from Kibbutz Alumim, before he was killed by terrorists.
On October 7, he fought for all of us as if we were his own children.
In historic moment for the country of Israel, policeman killed fighting Hamas invaders on October 7, 2023, is returned for burial after 843 days. Hostage forum hails him as ‘first to go in, last to return.’ Now phase 2 can legally begin in Gaza. Ran Gvili was found in Gaza and brought home.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Monday night revealed that the major intelligence development that led to the breakthrough was the capture of a specific Islamic Jihad terrorist with knowledge of Gvili’s remains’ whereabouts around a month ago.
IDF troops operate at a cemetery in Gaza City during a search for the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, in footage released on January 26, 2026; IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor and other officers and troops salute Gvili's body after it was located. (Israel Defense Forces); Master Sgt. Ran Gvili (Courtesy).
The military rushed to find Gvili's remains as the clock ticked down for Israel to reopen the Rafah Border Crossing.
Twenty dentists examined 250 bodies in 24 hours as reserve units and a Shin Bet–led operation followed extensive intelligence work; after the political echelon initially blocked an IDF search at the cemetery, operation Brave Heart succeeded, bringing home the last hostage.
Ran Gvili, 24, a police officer killed fighting the Hamas invaders, had been the last of 251 people kidnapped that day to remain captive, following the return of the rest of the hostages, living and dead, under the current ceasefire. For more than 50 days, he was the only hostage still held in Gaza, amid Hamas’s insistence that it had been unable to locate him, leaving his family and country fearful he might never be recovered.
But on Monday afternoon, a day after announcing it had launched a pinpoint search effort in a Muslim cemetery in Gaza City thanks to specific intel, the Israel Defense Forces said it had located Gvili’s remains and was bringing them across the border, back to his parents and siblings, and to his fellow Israelis, for a proper burial. For more than two years, amid war and adversity, masses across Israel and the world had vowed to keep protesting, praying and fighting “until the last hostage,” united across borders and backgrounds in the singular commitment to “bring them home.”
Now, that goal has been achieved. For the first time since 2014, no hostages are held in the Gaza Strip.
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