Reuters
Israeli Alon Ohel's absence has darkened his mother Idit's celebration of the Jewish Hanukkah festival, but she finds comfort recalling his love of the holiday donuts their family made again this year while Hamas holds him captive in Gaza. "Hanukkah is the festival of light, and not just light, of miracles,” Idit Ohel said on Thursday, the first of eight festive nights, and voiced hope he might be freed in that time. Commemorating an ancient Jewish victory, Hanukkah features the lighting of candles and frying of foods because, tradition says, of a miracle that oil found to fuel a ceremonial lamp was only enough for one day, but it burned for eight.