Their relatives are missing after Hamas’s attack. Now they’re tracking them down themselves

Frustrated by the government’s response, grassroots organisations are springing up

By Wendell Steavenson

On the morning of Saturday October 7th Orly Gilboa woke up to the sound of sirens. She and her husband, Ran, and their 15-year-old daughter, Noam, went to the reinforced safe room at their home in Petah Tikva, a town near Tel Aviv. Gilboa tried to call her other daughter Daniela, 19, who was in Nahal Oz, very close to Gaza. She worried that there might be rockets attacking the south, too.

At 6.40am Gilboa texted Daniela to ask what was happening. It was 40 minutes before Daniela replied.

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