So the first call is to one of my sisters.

I have two twin sisters.

And one of them gets the call.

And the man says,

Hi, my name is this and that.

I'm a policeman.

Do you know why I have Yuval's staff here at the station?

And she's saying, no, I don't.

And he was like, oh, okay, sorry, hang on, and he hangs up.

Hey, I'm Mishiharman, and this is Israel Story. As you know, we're continuing our

wartime diaries series, which is an attempt to collect slivers of life during these seemingly

endless days of war. On November 30, 2023, Yuval Kestelman from Evasirezion was driving to work.

He stopped at a red light at the entrance to Jerusalem, when two Palestinian terrorists,

on the other side of the highway, began shooting indiscriminately at passers-by.

As soon as he noticed this, Yuval got out of his car, drew his private and legally

owned pistol, warned other civilians to get out of harm's way, crossed six lanes of traffic,

and began shooting at the terrorists. He managed to eliminate one of them, just as four other

Israelis, including two off-duty IDF reservists, also began

firing at the attackers. Realizing that he was in the line of fire, and that he himself

might be mistaken for one of the terrorists, Yuval began retreating and dropped his pistol. Nevertheless, he was shot. He fell to the ground,

raised his arms up in the air, yelled out that he was in Israeli, opened his jacket to show he

wasn't wearing an explosive device, and even tossed over his wallet, which contained his Israeli ID card.

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