Netanyahu updates Mangistu family about efforts to retrieve their son

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's POW and MIA Coordinator Yaron Blum met on Wednesday with the family of Avera Mangistu, an Israeli citizen held captive by Hamas.

The Prime Minister's Office said that during the meeting Netanyahu updated the Mangistu family about the tremendous efforts—diplomatic and covert—being done to retrieve the bodies of IDF soldiers and the living Israeli citizens held by Hamas in Gaza.