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Listeners,

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Mee Hey listeners, it's Mishi.

So, as you know, during these incredibly difficult days, we're trying to bring you voices we're hearing among and around us.

These aren't stories, they're just quick conversations, or postcards really. They try to capture slivers of life

right now. Among the thousands of people who had the terrible misfortune of being in the wrong

place at the wrong time on October 7th, there were also, as we now all know, many foreigners.

People who had little or no connection to the long history of violence between Jews and Arabs, Israel and Hamas. Among them were Filipino

caregivers, Thai agricultural workers, and also a group of Nepali students who had been accepted to an 11-month-long internship at the Stotnegov Agricultural Training Center.

One of them was 22-year-old Luis Rijal, who, prior to being selected for the program, had never left Nepal and knew next to nothing

about Israel. He was nevertheless incredibly excited about the opportunity, as were the rest of the

students in his cohort. They had arrived in Israel on September 13th, three and a half weeks

before the day that would forever

change their lives.

Luis was one of the lucky ones.

He survived the attacks and has since been evacuated by the Nepali government.

Our senior producer, Yochai Meital, spoke to him over a crackly phone line,

shortly after he arrived back home to the western Nepali village of Bardia Girua.

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