Captivity

After 16 months in captivity, the former hostage says he longed most for Kiddush and Friday-night dinner at his mom's—not material things: 'What do I care if I have a Subaru or a Mercedes when I'm 50 meters underground? I just want to hug my family again.'

Shot down over Lebanon in 1986, Ron Arad was captured, briefly heard from, and then lost to silence. Decades later, his fate remains unknown.