Hanukkah in wartime: Israelis take stock two months on

By Howard Goller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two months into a war with Hamas, the faces of Israelis taken hostage to Gaza still appear on individual posters plastered across Jerusalem bus stops and flashed across buildings. The sombre mood was all-consuming on Thursday at the start of Hanukkah, the first Jewish festival since Oct. 7 when Israel says Hamas massacred 1,200 people. It was a solemn moment for all of Israel and not only for families of the 138 Israelis still held hostage. For some Israelis, the feeling is of a country shrinking. Some 200,000 Israelis have been uprooted from both the sou...