The foreign student that saved his dear friend from Hamas. Then he Vanished.

Bipin Joshi watched the two grenades skid across the cement floor of the windowless room where he was hiding, shoulder-to-shoulder with 16 other student farmers from Nepal.He arrived in Israel to tend to orange and lemon groves just weeks before Hamas attacked and saved his friends on Oct. 7. Then he disappeared.

Outside, the Hamas gunmen marauding through the orchards and dairy barn of Kibbutz Alumim were killing anyone they could find. The Nepalis had arrived in Israel just three weeks earlier, on a college program to tend orange and lemon groves. 

They were two days short of their first paycheck. Now, somehow, they were huddled against a wall, bracing for impact.Now his native Nepal is getting a crash course in hostage diplomacy as it searches for a single missing citizen. “The last 30 days have felt like 30 years.”