Professor Simcha Goldin, father of fallen captured soldier Hadar Goldin, was interviewed in the ynet studio marking 4,000 days since his son's capture, and said that "For nine and a half years we have been saying that whoever abandons fallen soldiers, especially fallen combatants on the battlefield, will abandon the wounded and endanger the living." He added that "We are 20 months after the outbreak of the war. I still haven't understood what we are arguing about, until we bring everyone back, Israeli society will not be able to rehabilitate itself. There is a very strong connection between the families of the soldiers, certainly the families of the fallen soldiers. We are in the same place. Our children were sent by the state to fight and were abandoned."