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Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff draws on personal tragedy to push for the release of Israeli hostages

JL;DR SUMMARY Steve Witkoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy, draws from personal tragedy—the 2011 death of his son from an opioid overdose—to empathize with Israeli hostage families. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israeli Palestinian ConflictAbraham AccordsMiddle EastDonald TrumpJewish PhilanthropyIsraeli HostagesHolocaust RemembranceU.S. Middle East PolicyGaza CeasefireSteve Witkoff

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Manhattan, New York, United States
"I lost my boy, Andrew, and what it must have been like for these families not knowing what was going to happen to their girls, Witkoff said in brief remarks at the ribbon cutting ceremony for The Altneu Synagogue Sunday night in Manhattan."
Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Before heading to Israel on Wednesday, Witkoff will lead on Monday a U.S. delegation to Poland to participate in events marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on International Holocaust Remembrance Day."

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