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Auburn University men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl will lead his team to the Final Four this weekend, highlighting an already impressive season, throughout which Pearl has used the spotlight to call for the release of the remaining Gaza hostages.
Pearl, a Jew who proudly calls Israel “the ancestral homeland for the Jewish people,” opened a press conference viewed by millions after the Auburn Tigers’s victory over Creighton earlier this month by drawing attention to 19-year-old American hostage Edan Alexander.
“I believe it was God’s plan to give us this success – success beyond what we deserve,” Pearl said. “To give us this platform. To give me an opportunity to start this conference really briefly and remind the world that Edan Alexander is still held hostage in Gaza right now. … Bring the hostages home.”
Alexander is believed to be the last living American hostage in Hamas captivity.
Later in the press …
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