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When Yael Ram-Matzpon * heard the door open at 3:30 a.m., she thought it
was her husband returning from his job in the IDF. But when the door flung
open and the light flicked on, she found herself face to face with a
knife-wielding Palestinian terrorist from Gaza. Lying next to her in bed
was her four and half year- old daughter and two year- old son. In a room
close by, her eight and nine year old daughters lay sleeping.
“‘What do you want, I asked him. Money, food?’ I got up. He told me to get
down on the floor. I knew I wasn’t doing that.”
And so began a fight to the death between an unarmed 39 year- old mother of
four and an armed terrorist in Sde Avraham, a neighborhood in southern
Israel’s Eshkol region near Gaza; a mother who knew that only she stood
between him and the slaughter of her innocent children. “He pushed me down
and started to slash me,” she told Israel’s evening news. “And I thought:
‘Now I’m going to feel what it’s like to be slashed, just like you see on
television.'” As she speaks, we notice the long scar on her cheekbone, the
tear in her skin under her eye and on her chin, evidence of the deadly
weapon which sought to take away her life and the lives of her children.