On Mother's Day, Yael Alexander got perhaps the best gift: the news that her son Edan Alexander would be released from Hamas captivity the following day. One week after that life-changing phone call, NBC News spoke to Yael Alexander and her husband, A...pal Airport runway lights went out as soon as he landed. Isn’t that something? Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up. Even more than surviving captivity, surviving a horde of reporters at your homecoming might just need a medal of its own, right?