CNN
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“Something can be born out of everything – if you want it to,” said Iris Haim, whose hostage son Yotam was killed in Gaza. Those words are helping her find hope.
The new beginning that Haim now longs for is a grandchild, created from sperm she had harvested from Yotam’s body upon its return home in December 2023.
“Yes, a disaster happened,” Haim, 59, told CNN of her son’s killing from the Israeli town of Mevaseret Zion, a few miles west of Jerusalem. “But it doesn’t control me.”
Yotam, 28, was kidnapped by Hamas-led militants from kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023. After spending 65 days in captivity, he was…
