A Jewish woman and her son were rescued from an Arab village near Shechem in a complex IDF operation early Tuesday morning.
The woman was being held against her will in a Palestinian village and was subject to terrible abuse. She turned to the anti-assimilation group Lehava, the very group that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told PA President Mahmoud Abbas he will be designating as a foreign terrorist organization.
“This is a woman with whom we’ve been in contact for a long time,” Lehava chairman Bentzi Gopstein told Arutz Sheva. “She was crying for help. It was a very complex IDF evacuation because her [Arab] family didn’t want her to leave.”
According to Religious Zionist chairman Betzalel Smotrich, the lives of the woman and son hung in the balance prior to the rescue in a race between the IDF and the PA security forces.
They are now safe in one of Lehava’s safe homes. Gopstein made a special trip from northern Israel, where he is vacationing with his family, to meet the woman and ensure she has everything she needs.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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al zeh neemar: “kol hamirachem al haachzarim sofo lihiyos achzar al harachmanim” in other words: misplaced mercy leads to cruelty on the innocent!
clarafication: i was referring to blinkin ect. that he has misguided mercy on arab fathers…
The Jews at Lehava are heroes. They practice real mesirat nefesh and should be congratulated.
Why risking lives to save a zoina?
What a mitzva! She’ll do it again in a heartbeat.
JayD and Bklyntrucker: Why bother saving any Jew, right? Vayikra 19:17 commands us what to do in just this situation:
לֹֽא־תִשְׂנָא אֶת־אָחִיךָ בִּלְבָבֶךָ הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת־עֲמִיתֶךָ וְלֹֽא־תִשָּׂא עָלָיו חֵֽטְא
We cannot get away with merely hating an errant Jew’s behavior and doing nothing to bring them back to a life of virtue. Rather, we must take action. The Torah wants us to pull them out of their errancy and give them rebuke. Otherwise, we will end up bearing a portion of their sin.
Efsher ken men zogin: shtait i Torah: “v’nikla achicha l’aynecha…the gemara says: kivan sheniklah (she was hit) hrei hu k’achicha lchol davar”(she’s our fellow counterpart)!!! shes therefore included in “lo saamod al dam rayacha”!!!😄
Where in the article do you see that she is not Jewish?
Bentzi Gopstein does עבודת קודש mamesh! Go להב”ה! Go!