Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of slain hostage, feels like she failed

60 Minutes Overtime Rachel Goldberg-Polin, grieving mother who fought for Israeli hostages' return, says she feels like she failed .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-60-minutes-overtime.jpg'); } By Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 60 Minutes Correspondent Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," has contributed to 60 Minutes since 2006. His exceptional reporting on big news events has earned Cooper a reputation as one of television's preeminent newsmen. Read Full Bio Anderson Cooper, Aliza Chasan, Aliza Chasan Digital Content Producer Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza covers trending news, often focusing on crime and politics. Read Full Bio Aliza Chasan, Katie Brennan, Matt Riley April 19, 2026 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the grieving mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken hostage Oct. 7, 2023 and murdered nearly a year later, has kept her son's room as he left it, with one exception. There's a ball of tape; each piece has a number on it. After her son's abduction, Rachel started wearing a piece of tape; on it, she'd write the number of days since Hersh and the other 250 hostages were taken. At the end of each day, the pieces were placed on a wall in her apartment. Rachel finally took the pieces of tape down earlier this year after the body of the last hostage was returned to Israel in January. It now sits in a ball in Hersh's room.When Rachel looks at the pieces of tape, she sees "symbols of failure.""What we were fighting for did happen. We got all of these people home, not as we wanted. We wanted them home, alive, but they had come home," she said. Rachel said she feels she failed, even though she fought tirelessly with her husband, Jon, for the return of their son and the other hosta...