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A Tekoa Miracle that

Began in Chevron

Sivan Rahav-Meir (PHOTO: DAVID HIRSCH)

On Sunday night, May 8, Yair Maimon of Tekoa was drinking tea with his wife on
his front porch when he spotted an Arab terrorist climbing the security fence a few
meters away. Without hesitation, he quickly rushed his wife and seven children inside
and grabbed his M16 rifle, which he owned as a civilian member of the community’s
security team. When he rushed out his front door, he realized the terrorist had
outflanked him. He turned around to discover the terrorist coming towards him with
a knife in his hand. At short range, he shot and the killed the terrorist just in time,
averting what could have been a disaster for the entire Tekoa community.

“H i Sivan, I know you don’t usually pub-

lish stories like this, but I feel the need
to share.
My name is Avraham Maimon, I’m the
brother of Yair Maimon, the hero from Tekoa who killed
the terrorist who tried to break into his house yesterday.

Here is another side to the story: On Sunday evening, May
8, my mother was sitting in her home in Kiryat Arba, when
she began to feel an overwhelming distress in her heart.
Although she was tired and exhausted from Shabbat where
she hosted all her children, she felt that something big was A picture uploaded by Tekoa resident Yair Maimon to Facebook on May 9,
about to happen. shows him and his wife drinking coffee outside their home alongside the
caption, ‘Waiting for the next terrorist.’ (PHOTO: FACEBOOK)
In a spontaneous decision, she walked down to the Cave of
the Patriarchs, the tombs of our fathers and mothers, and
began to weep and pray, though she did not know for what.
In those very moments, Yair and his wife decided to go out
for tea on the balcony of their house, and you know what
happened next.
Sivan Rahav-Meir
When I first called my mother to tell her what was going is a media personality and lecturer. She lives in Jerusalem
on, she just replied: “I know something happened. Just tell with her husband, Yedidya, and their five children, and
me everyone is okay.” serves as World Mizrachi’s Scholar-in-Residence. She is
a primetime anchor on Channel 2 News, has a column
There is a hidden world that we do not see: a connection in Israel’s largest newspaper, Yediot Acharonot, and has
between mother and son; a connection between the Fathers a weekly radio show on Galei Tzahal (Army Radio).
and Mothers of our Nation to us, their children; a connection Join me at the
between Chevron and Gush Etzion; a connection between World Orthodox Israel Congress Est. 1902
prayer and reality. May we hear good news.” orthodoxisraelcongress.org 120 YEARS OF RELIGIOUS ZIONISM

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