I'll tell you a story about a guy called Ben Shimoni.

This guy lives in, was in Bereshava.

He was at the party, that big party in Reim where there was the big massacre.

He had a car.

He said to a bunch of folks, get in my car and he evacuated them out to Bereshiva, saved five lives.

And then he said, well, I'm going back.

And his girlfriend said, you can't, don't go back, don't go back.

He went back, evacuated another five people, saved their lives back to Bereshiva,

went back a third time to the into harm's way.

He didn't owe anything to anyone.

He didn't have to.

He's a citizen.

He's not a soldier.

He's not even a policeman.

On the third time, he took a bullet and died.

And I just met his mom.

This is the highest degree of courage that I've seen. But like Ben, I've seen about a hundred

different cases of courage that even I, Prime Minister of Israel, and, you know, I fought I was a

commander in special forces. I've never seen this degree of courage. In the wake of the devastating Hamas attacks of October 7,

which saw the tragic loss of over 1,200 Israeli lives, mostly civilians,

as well as the kidnapping of another 240 people by Hamas,

were joined by a figure central to Israeli politics and international diplomacy,

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