Peretz Eicher interview with Dr Krug about Kidnapped cousin in Israel

there's a family that shares the concern for the three captured teenagers in Israel on a very personal level cousins of nelli Frankle one of the 16-year-olds that was captured kidnapped unabashedly by Arab terrorists on Friday or late Thursday night it's now Sunday this family is particularly concerned because their cousins have known have known of Tully since he was a baby Dr aric Krug is one of those cousins and he talks about the family and how they are holding up during this terrible ordeal we're talking with Dr Ari Krug here in lakew New Jersey Dr Krug is a cousin of naali Frank the young teenager the 16-year-old boy one of three that was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in um in Israel and uh Ari when did you get the news of what happened Friday Friday uh at work my wife called me with it and uh what was your immediate reaction when you heard it actually the the first thing I heard was was the false report that they were that they were found I didn't even know that there was a problem until I heard they were found and and uh and then obviously the we found out from the family that the report was completely Incorrect and uh then was shock and horror hard to work the rest of the day what can you tell us about the family and you you you don't know to since he was a a little boy when they were I think you went to visit them over the past uh holiday in suot but what can you tell us about about the nature of the family it's a it's a lovely a loving strong family um very warm close family um my my wife and his mother are first cousins and we're very very close um growing up um n telli was actually the the first baby I ever held um I was always the youngest so I never had the opportunity to hold smaller children and when we got engaged he was he was the first one that I the first baby I ever held um the family is they're a fun family they're they're definitely very uh idealistic they're they're they're strong strong with their faith strong with their their uh political strong with their family views have you been in touch with the family over there have you spoken with them and what kind of reactions you getting from them the extended family we've been speaking to my wife spoke to um neali mother this morning um and how is she holding up we saw her on one of the previous videos she seems like a very strong person very very strong we we knew we knew when uh we knew beforehand that she would she would be uh definitely a strong person to to help bolster up the family and uh I can't I can't imagine anyone ever being strong enough for something like this but definitely a very very strong person do they sound hopeful very they are hopeful I mean there I don't see any reason not to be hopeful at this time even though it's it's terrifying and and tragic at this point um but obviously everyone has to Ding and keep keep keep the feels keep the prayers for for for all three of the boys well you know we're obviously thousands and thousands of miles away what would you want people to know that they could do what would you want people to do actually you yourself are are having a gathering in in your home this evening to to have people say to Hill is that correct I think just the constant constant prayers constant to constant FIS um every every every cap it only helps it all adds together just in our own Community here we've seen n that have that have come out from from from from from from coming together ding together saying to them together all these things are are are all the all the all the work that we can do here okay all right thanks very much hopefully we'll share good news together