KFAR ETZION Beyond the horror of the Hamas attacks on Israeli border communities, stories of courage that saved many lives are coming to light. CBN News spoke with one hero, who together with his security team, saved an entire community.
Yedidia Harush and his family live in Shlomit, less than five miles from Gaza and one of three communities in an area called Halutza, meaning pioneers.
“A few bombs fell near the houses near us, which caused a lot of damage. And, uh, afterwards, um, it got kind of quiet for a few minutes. And I looked at my wife and with our eyes I told her that something is not right. It’s not the usual attacks,” Harush said of the morning of October 7.
Harush is part of Shlomit’s security team. Early on October 7, they got a phone call from a family in the nearby community of Pri Gan, just five minutes down the road.
“He said that outside his house, there are seven terrorists who are waiting to get into his house. Immediately, the security team did not think twice, and they get got into the cars and drove to Pri Gan,” he said.
When Shlomit’s 11-man security team arrived, they engaged in fighting terrorists in Pri Gan with no
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