A Modern Hero

This man is David Hatuel. He is an Israeli. And he is a modern hero in by book.



As Israel National News explains,

David Hatuel, whose wife and four daughters were murdered in a 2004 terrorist attack, welcomed a daughter to the world on Thursday. The baby girl and her mother Limor are in good health.

Hatuel’s first wife Tali and their four daughters were murdered while driving near their home in Gush Katif in an attack that shook the nation. The girls ranged in age from two to eleven years old.

Tali Hatuel was eight months pregnant with the Hatuel’s first son at the time of the attack. She and her daughters were shot at point-blank range by Islamic Jihad terrorists, who launched their attack from abandoned buildings near the Kissufim Road, which the Israeli Supreme Court had forbidden the army to remove.

After mourning his family, David Hatuel explained that he had two options: to fall and let the tragedy destroy him, or to choose life. He was subsequently evicted from his home, still filled with memories of his family, as part of the Disengagement.

Here is a man who lost his entire family - a wife, four daughters, and a baby due in less than four weeks. Then the Israeli government forcibly removed him from his home in the flawed and tragic "Disengagement" and handed his home over to the terrorists that murdered his family.

And this man chose life instead of choosing to be bitter and full of hatred.

The world needs more men like David Hatuel.

picture © Arutz Sheva (Israel International News)