The Future is Bright

Bar Kuperstein was a medic who was kidnapped by Hamas after staying behind at the Nova Festival to care for the wounded.

Years earlier, Bar had already assumed enormous responsibility. After his father, Tal—a fellow paramedic—was paralyzed in a car accident, Bar became the primary breadwinner for his family.

In the aftermath of Bar’s abduction, his mother, Julie Kuperstein, launched an extraordinary and deeply personal initiative. Rather than turning to politics or media campaigns, she asked Jewish men around the world to don Bar’s tefillin—and the tefillin of other captive men—in their merit.