New York – At Times Square, known as the crossroads of the world, seven words flash across a 30-by-40 square foot, hi-definition digital billboard: Let Gilad know he is not alone.
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Corporal Gilad Shalit marked his 24th birthday on August 28, — his fifth birthday as a hostage of Hamas, which kidnapped him from an IDF border patrol in June of 2006. He is denied contact with the outside world.
Attempts to secure his release have thus far been unsuccessful.
The hard-to-miss billboard is on the W Hotel at 47th Street in Times Square where it can be seen by thousands. The video short about Shalit will be shown four times per hour daily, through Sept. 5. It launched on Aug 30. The billboard presents a 30-second video excerpt and the full video can be seen online at giladgreetings.org.
Anything that helps…no matter how different of an approach such as this is welcome. The world needs to be reminded of the terrible plight of this one man held for four plus years. BTW where is the great diplomat and so called elder statesman Jimmy Carter? I’m sure Carter with his good feelings towards Hamas could help if he wanted to……for that matter where is the great new man in the White House on this subject?
Great idea, let the world see the suffering.
We should not stop shouting to the world about Gilad. Let them see the inhumanity of Hamas.
We should all have Gilad Shalit in our teffilot as we enter into the Yamim Noraim.