The Hop: Holding Liat
Thu, Nov 06
|Loew Auditorium
After Liat is kidnapped on October 7th, her Israeli American family faces their own conflicting perspectives to fight for her release and the future of the places they call home.
Time & Location
Nov 06, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:45 PM
Loew Auditorium, 4 E Wheelock St, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
About the event
On the morning of October 7, 2023, Israeli American Liat Atzili and her husband Aviv were at home when Hamas attacked their kibbutz. By nightfall, Liat and Aviv are captives in Gaza along with 250 other people—12 of whom, like Liat, are American citizens. Caught between international diplomacy and a rapidly escalating war, their family must face their own uncertainty and conflicting political perspectives in the pursuit of Liat and Aviv's release. This agonizing process, and the ultimate fate of their loved ones, challenges how the members of the family understand themselves and their place in the conflict.
Through the intimate lens of a family's experience, this thoughtful documentary poses complex questions of identity across generations, as the family is thrust into the epicenter of a global conflict rapidly unfolding in real-time.
Discussion follows with producer Lance Kramer '06, Judith Hertog (Upper Valley Jewish Center) and Professor Bernard Avishai, teaching…