Former hostage Omer Shem Tov danced and clapped down the runway at Israel Canada Fashion Week Tel Aviv, with his mother Shelly Shem Tov grinning at him from the front row.Shem Tov took part in the “TimeLess Icons” show, a charity fashion event in partnership with food brand Elite, designed around iconic confections familiar to generations of Israelis.The fashion event, held from November 9 to 12, returned for a
second year following a wartime hiatus.The 2025 Fashion Week included former hostage Eli Sharabi walking the runway, as well as hostage family members such as Gaya Calderon, whose brothers and father survived captivity; Keren Schem, the mother of former hostage Mia Schem; Dani Miran, the father of released hostage Omri Miran; and Ayelet Samerano, whose son Yonatan was killed during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught and
whose body was recovered by the IDF in Gaza in June 2025.Other reminders of three years of war included designer Golan Elbaz Frydman’s show on Wednesday afternoon in collaboration with the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization.Elbaz Frydman had already been working on a collection he called “Fragments” when Motty Reif, the longtime producer of Fashion Week, contacted him about showing his apparel on the runway.The
designer showed his collection with injured veterans walking the runway on prosthetics, or pushing themselves in wheelchairs, wearing clothing items meant to accommodate their life-altering injuries.“The whole concept is to gather the fragments of yourself and rebuild anew,” said Elbaz Frydman in an Instagram reel.
“You’ll never be what you were, but you’re a new version of yourself, and you’re no less than what you were.”Never miss important Israel stories - get the free Times of Israel Daily Edition
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