""We were driving in a car when suddenly shots started. The shooting didn't stop, the terrorist simply tried to eliminate us. If we had stood still, it would have simply been a confirmed kill. He simply fired bullet after bullet" - this is how Hadassah Mizrahi recalled this morning (Wednesday) the first moments of the shooting attack last Monday, in which her husband was killed, Lieutenant Colonel Baruch Mizrahi The 47-year-old, from Modi'in.
""Baruch saw that they were shooting, so he told me: 'There's a terrorist,' and put his foot on the gas," Hadassah described the dramatic sequence of events in a conversation with the Walla website. "He got a bullet and I got a bullet, and I noticed that we were doing a zig-zag with the car. I picked it up, grabbed the steering wheel, downshifted and the vehicle stopped. I called the 100 hotline, and at the same time soldiers arrived and told them to bandage me. I saw right then that Baruch had been murdered and I didn't want the children to be traumatized.".
""We will move forward with a lot of strength, slowly, with a supportive family and friends," says Hadassah. "I want to raise my children so that they can serve in the army and get married. That will be our joy.".
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She said about her husband: "He served 25 years in the army and then in the police. He was very successful, a leader in his field, we were together for 20 years. He was a devoted and charming father, who also found time to be with the children. Our last trip was last week when we were on safari.".
Mizrahi sought to convey a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in light of recent reports about a possible deal with the Palestinian Authority: "Another family has been destroyed, and therefore I call on the Prime Minister not to release terrorists.".
