JTA — Jacob Phillips’s first trip to Israel from his home in Germany was in 2023, to visit Holocaust survivors in Tel Aviv as part of a university program. It was cut short by the bloody October 7 Hamas onslaught, which forced him to leave the country. He returned with his girlfriend this month to tour the sites he missed. “Because the last trip, it was a harsh cut,” he said. “That’s why we came back, to visit the people I met here in Israel.” On Saturday, Phillips and his girlfriend Michelle were among the very few people walking the...