{"id":597700,"date":"2023-11-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/i-was-alone-with-15-terrorists-i-knew-at-any-second-they-might-kill-me\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:00:00","slug":"i-was-alone-with-15-terrorists-i-knew-at-any-second-they-might-kill-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/i-was-alone-with-15-terrorists-i-knew-at-any-second-they-might-kill-me\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018I was alone with 15 terrorists \u2013 I knew at any second they might kill me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Adi Efrat, 51, life will forever more be split in two \u2013 before and after October 7, the day Hamas terrorists took her from her home on Kibbutz Be\u2019eri, the day her house was scorched to the ground, the day dozens of her friends and neighbours were murdered. Over 12 hours she was held captive by Hamas and ended up alone with 15 terrorists, until a gun battle with the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) forced them to retreat. By a \u201cmiracle\u201d and the fortitude of those soldiers, Efrat survived, as did her husband Avishai, her daughter Dvir, 21, and an adopted son David, 34, who were all trapp<\/a>ed in their houses nearby. They are among the lucky ones. More than 100 on Kibbutz Be\u2019eri didn\u2019t make it and at least 10 are still missing.<\/p>\n

Before October 7, Efrat was a manager of a resilience centre in Sderot, helping people who experienced trauma to prevent Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) using animal therapy. Sderot has since been evacuated and Efrat and the survivors of Kibbutz Be\u2019eri have been relocated to the Dead Sea, but her connection with animals endures. Every other day she\u2019s been making the six-hour, perilous return journey to Be\u2019eri to feed the farm animals and stray cats on the kibbutz \u2013 needing a special permit to enter the zone, accompanied by two armed guards. \u201cIt feels good to deal with life, to deal with innocent creatures,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week she is in London to share her testimony. \u201cFirst-hand testimony is powerful,\u201d says Rabbi Naftali Schiff, who runs Jewish Futures<\/a>, the charity that has brought her to the UK. \u201cIt took 50 years for the Holocaust denial to begin. For this massacre it has taken five minutes,\u201d he says of the whitewashing on social media<\/a> and the recent denial by the Hamas chief. For Efrat, what should feel like respite from a warzone is proving stressful in a different sense. \u201cTo see all these demonstrations\u2026 it\u2019s too hurtful,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wearing silk trousers and a smart white top \u2013 \u201ceverything is donated, all I own are the pyjamas and robe I had on my back\u201d \u2013 kibbutz life feels a world away. \u201cIt\u2019s a socialist way of life \u2013 a collective community,\u201d says Efrat of the kibbutz. Finances are pooled, they have a shared dining room, a fleet of kibbutz cars, and make shared decisions on the future of the kibbutz. Efrat sees herself as a \u201chumanist\u201d and has always believed in equality across race and religion. The thesis for her masters degree, in fact, was on the relationships between Arabs and Israelis, the importance of which she has always believed in. \u201cFor me people are people,\u201d she says. \u201cI believe in mankind. I believe in goodness. And in good will.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For Adi Efrat, 51, life will forever more be split in two \u2013 before and after October 7, the day Hamas terrorists took her from her home on Kibbutz Be\u2019eri, the day her house was scorched to the ground, the day dozens of her friends and neighbours were murdered. Over 12 hours she was held…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/world-news\/2023\/11\/11\/TELEMMGLPICT000356110927_16997039036300_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?impolicy=logo-overlay","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}