129 days: How one Israeli hostage in Gaza told stories to endure captivity

Luis Har, shown here in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 27, was taken hostage during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and freed by an Israeli special forces operation in February. In captivity, he says, "Every time we fell into depression, we overcame it with stories. We started to say, where are we going to travel to today in our minds?" (Tamir Kalifa for NPR)

TEL AVIV — Every evening when it turned dark, before guards turned on a light, Israeli hostage Luis Har told his fellow captives a story.

"I have a rich past of stories," Har, 71, says. "It helped us pass the time."