The Full Testimony
Testimony of
Isi Shemesh
On Friday night, Isi Shemesh and his wife drove to the airport to pick up their daughter, who had returned from abroad. On their way home to Kibbutz Magen, they passed the party at Re'im, not imagining what would happen nearly three hours later. A red alert woke them up, and they entered the safe room. Isi heard that in addition to the rocket falls in the community, there were shootings. As head of the local emergency team, he immediately issued a message to the residents, instructing them to lock the doors of their homes and remain silent. He had never written this before. Terrorists infiltrated Magen, and members of the alert squad waged a heroic battle against them. Issei and his wife remained in the safe room. When they heard footsteps on the roof of the safe room, they feared for their lives. For hours, while the battle outside was raging, Isi held the safe room door with one hand and answered dozens of kibbutz members' messages. "The army is on its way," he wrote to them. But the army didn't come. The members of the alert squad alone managed to overcome dozens of terrorists and saved the kibbutz from a fate like that of neighboring kibbutzim.
Place of the event:
Name:
Isi Shemesh
Organization:
None
Language:
Hebrew
Credit:
Videography: Binyamin Shilo
Interview: Tehila Darmon Malka
Video editing: Binyamin Shilo
Content editing: Einat Gal
Other media
Matar Belzer
They didn't know that there were 3,000-4,000 people in actual danger of their lives - Matar Belzer
Dany Zernitsky
The iron scars will remain with everyone who experienced the Shabbat in October; we must deal with them. - Dany Zernitsky
Yaell Malka
Everyone came and left with weapons and were alert and tense. You could feel it in the air. - Yaell Malka
Lina Orlov, Rotem Yaakobi
Three hundred bodies on the road, all around, people shot still inside the vehicle, bodies... and no one is here - Lina Orlov, Rotem Yaakobi
Idan Caspi
I understood that they were aiming for my head. If the balloon hadn't been there, it would have hit my head. - Idan Caspi
Nofar Gahali
No one prepares you— not for this pain nor for the scenarios you've seen there. - Nofar Gahali
Laura Lotem Chezes
“Everything was out, the bedroom, the kitchen. I looked at the living room and saw that they had broken the window there and came through it. I “flew” back to the safe room”. - Laura Lotem Chezes
Tali Hadad
“I said to the guy: "listen, I’m going to get the car and evacuate casualties. He said: “go, your a hero”” - Tali Hadad
