Chantal Da Silva is a breaking news editor for NBC News Digital based in London.
TEL AVIV — A Bar Mitzvah is meant to be a time of ceremony and celebration marking a child's coming of age, but for one family on Saturday, the young man at the center of the ritual may have already been forced to grow up far too fast after his older brother was one of dozens of people taken hostage by Hamas one week ago. 'Itay was very missed,' Orly Chen, the aunt of Itay Chen, a 19-year-old U.S.
-Israeli families whom President Joe Biden met with for more than an hour in a Zoom call on Friday. Orly Chen said the call brought her and her loved ones some relief, saying the president 'gave hope.' 'He was very supportive,' she said, adding that Biden seemed to want to 'hear what's going on with the families,' with the call stretching longer than she had initially expected.
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