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fter 246 days in Hamas captivity, Israeli special forces rescued Noa Argamani and carried her by helicopter to a hospital outside Tel Aviv. There, a doctor turned to her and said, “Noa, we’re really happy that you’re here with us.”
Argamani was confused. “The first thing I asked is, ‘How do you know my name?'” she recalls. “I didn’t realize the whole world knew who I was.”
At 25, Argamani had become one of the faces of the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. On the morning of her kidnapping, she was a college student about to begin her third year studying artificial intelligence. She imagined becoming a software engineer. Maybe she would start…
