But Gritzewsky can take comfort in one important fact: namely, that although her abduction can fairly be blamed on failures by Israel’s security apparatus, once it happened, Gritzewsky’s fellow Israelis — men and women, civilians and military — devoted every resource at their disposal to publicizing hostages’ plight, advocating for their redemption and punishing the villains in the plot. In short, the hostages’ entire national community, by no means unified on most internal issues (indeed, quite the opposite), had their backs.