For freed Israeli hostage musician, a piano waits to be played again

A tightly-packed crowd in the northern Israeli town of Lavon leapt to their feet and erupted into jubilant cheers at news of the release of Alon Ohel, 24, a hostage from their community who had been held by Hamas for over two years. "It was an amazing feeling. I waited for this moment, specifically to see his face and to see him smiling," said Inbar Halperin, 24, a childhood friend. She embraced friends with tears in her eyes as the first pictures of their former classmate, showing him now free and on his feet, appeared on live television. Ohel, a pianist, was wounded by a grenade thrown into the cramped roadside bomb shelter where he had taken cover with almost...