A moving photo online: "The two officers protected my son with their bodies!""

July 16, 2014   

It happened yesterday around 1:00 p.m.: Lee Aviv Dadon and her husband Barak, a teacher and nurse at a hospital by profession, were traveling with their children, a baby and a four-and-a-half-year-old boy - when suddenly an alarm sounded. The car door wouldn't open, and they panicked. Only at the last moment did the parents manage to open the door, and their four-and-a-half-year-old son Yair ran alone quickly to hide. But then the couple noticed a moving sight: Home Front Command officers wrapping their son around them and protecting him with their bodies. The mother filmed the scene and uploaded it to her Facebook page, writing: ""What an amazing army we have! On the way home with the kids, we were caught by an alarm. A vehicle carrying Home Front Command officers stopped next to us and we all went out to take cover. These two amazing officers grabbed my 4-year-old son and protected him with their bodies!! A picture is worth a thousand words! Thank you — ‏"I feel blessed."" The photo has since been shared thousands of times. ""We were in the car with the children and just turned into the entrance to our neighborhood on the streets and then we heard the alarm," the mother recalled in a conversation with News 2 Online. "We immediately pulled over, and saw a vehicle that stopped in front of us and there were four officers and soldiers from the Home Front Command in it.". The husband went out to get the baby, while the mother went out to get Yair - but the door was locked and she was unable to open it at first. "Everyone had already taken cover and it was very stressful until I managed to get Yair out and he ran to take cover alone. Suddenly I saw two soldiers from the Home Front Command surrounding him - it was simply amazing, and I asked them for permission to take a picture of it, I had to.". The soldiers, who don't know the family, simply jumped on the boy and protected him. They weren't satisfied with that, and during the 10-minute wait after the alarm went off, they dubbed him, asked him questions and talked to him. "I thanked them and I was really moved, Yair was calmed by it," she added. Immediately after the incident, she uploaded the photo to Facebook. "I wanted everyone to see the true face of the soldiers and their humanity - instead of protecting themselves, they protected him.".