How hospitality and a little Arabic saved a couple’s life
A little light in the darkness: how an elderly couple managed to keep five terrorists talking until the two were rescued by the Israeli security forces. The Times of Israel reports (with thanks: Michal):
Rachel Edry: kept five terrorists talking for 13 hours
When Hamas terrorists invaded the home of Rachel Edry in Ofakim amid the brutal onslaught from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, she treated them in the way that came most naturally to her: politely.
The terrorists spent 15 hours until early Sunday morning in the home of Edry and her husband David, a couple in their seventies from Ofakim.
During that time, Rachel Edry, who was born in what is now Iran, served the terrorist treats, joked with them in rudimentary Arabic and even sang with them a Hebrew-language song by Lior Narkis they knew from the radio.
This semblance of hospitality may have saved the couple’s lives.
At 3 a.m. on Sunday, a police force broke into the duplex after hours of negotiations, killing all five terrorists and reuniting the couple, completely unharmed, with their daughter and two sons, both police officers who participated in the rescue operation.
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