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Jewish Mother Fights Armed Terrorist, Prevents ‘Itamar 2’
A mother managed to fight off an armed terrorist, saving herself and her young children.By Maayana Miskin
First Publish: 11/27/2012, 4:34 PMAn Israeli mother in the small agricultural community of Sde Avraham managed to fight off an armed terrorist on Monday, saving herself and her young children from murder, Maariv/nrg reports.
Yael Matzpun was sleeping in a room with her four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son when she was awoken by heavy footsteps in the hall. She knew that her husband, an IDF officer, was not due at home.
“Suddenly I saw a terrorist in a kefiyyeh [head scarf] standing opposite me,” she told Maariv. “I decided that if I didn’t fight, he would murder me and my four children, there would be a massacre like in Itamar, where the Fogels and three of their children were murdered in their home.”
The terrorist turned on the light and said something in Arabic, she recalled. He had a knife in one hand and a metal pipe in the other. Suddenly he lunged at Yael, stabbing her in the face and shoulder.
What the terrorist did not know is that Yael is an athlete trained in Krav Maga, Israeli military hand-to-hand combat. She used her skills to drive him back and into the bathroom, and locked him in. At the same time, she pushed her young children to safety.
Once the terrorist was locked away, she called for help. IDF forces arrived only to see the terrorist escaping through a bathroom window. They gave chase and attempted to arrest him, but were forced to open fire when he refused to drop his weapons. The terrorist was killed.
“The terrorist fell into the wrong woman’s hands, from his point of view,” Yael’s father said. “Even when she was a young girl, she would hug me like a vice… After she learned Krav Maga she was always able to take down thugs.”
Sde Avraham is located in southern Israel, several kilometers from the Gaza security barrier.
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quote JewishFitness1976:Jewish Mother Fights Armed Terrorist, Prevents ‘Itamar 2’
A mother managed to fight off an armed terrorist, saving herself and her young children.By Maayana Miskin
First Publish: 11/27/2012, 4:34 PMAn Israeli mother in the small agricultural community of Sde Avraham managed to fight off an armed terrorist on Monday, saving herself and her young children from murder, Maariv/nrg reports.
Yael Matzpun was sleeping in a room with her four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son when she was awoken by heavy footsteps in the hall. She knew that her husband, an IDF officer, was not due at home.
“Suddenly I saw a terrorist in a kefiyyeh [head scarf] standing opposite me,” she told Maariv. “I decided that if I didn’t fight, he would murder me and my four children, there would be a massacre like in Itamar, where the Fogels and three of their children were murdered in their home.”
The terrorist turned on the light and said something in Arabic, she recalled. He had a knife in one hand and a metal pipe in the other. Suddenly he lunged at Yael, stabbing her in the face and shoulder.
What the terrorist did not know is that Yael is an athlete trained in Krav Maga, Israeli military hand-to-hand combat. She used her skills to drive him back and into the bathroom, and locked him in. At the same time, she pushed her young children to safety.
Once the terrorist was locked away, she called for help. IDF forces arrived only to see the terrorist escaping through a bathroom window. They gave chase and attempted to arrest him, but were forced to open fire when he refused to drop his weapons. The terrorist was killed.
“The terrorist fell into the wrong woman’s hands, from his point of view,” Yael’s father said. “Even when she was a young girl, she would hug me like a vice… After she learned Krav Maga she was always able to take down thugs.”
Sde Avraham is located in southern Israel, several kilometers from the Gaza security barrier.
Excellent story, thanks for sharing! It’s amazing what some people will do when properly motivated!
Re: Jewish Mother Fights Armed Terrorist, Prevents ‘Itamar 2’
Never stand in between a mother and her children.
Most ladies do not like to fight and they should learn Krav Maga ( or whatever martial art is available in japanese jiu Jitsu & judo or karate )
They can learn the art of Krav Maga for health reasons. This is an excellent way for new mothers to lose some pounds off from being pregnant and be motivated to protect her children and live a happy & full life.
Re: Jewish Mother Fights Armed Terrorist, Prevents ‘Itamar 2’
Woman singlehandedly drives terrorist away
As two of her children with her and two others in next room, Yael of Sdei Avraham struggled with terrorist who infiltrated into her house and trapped him in bathroom; he voluntarily fled the scene
Ilana Curiel
Published: 11.26.12, 18:03 / Israel NewsYael, 39, a resident of the Sdei Avraham farming town in the Eshkol Regional Council, managed to chase out a Palestinian who broke into her home and threatened her with a knife and an iron rod. She struggled with him inside the house, singlehandedly protecting her four children.
Yael’s father, Danny Matzpun, told Ynet: “She pushed him into the bathroom and blocked the door using one of the kids’ beds. She hurt herself during the struggle; he leaned against her and stabbed her in the face and the shoulder.”
The father added: “This could have ended as a second Itamar incident,” referring to the murder of five members of the Fogel family by terrorists who infiltrated their house in 2011.
The incident occurred shortly before 4 am, when an infiltrator broke into the family home, where Yael and her four children were sleeping.
According to Matzpun, “The man walked into the home with a bar and a knife. He made it to the bedroom, where he engaged in stubborn struggle with my daughter. Her two youngest children, aged four and two, were with her in the room. Her eldest daughters were in their bedroom. She pushed him and took the kids out to the fortified space across the bedroom door. Then he started to throw objects at her, including a mirror.”
Matzpun said that after his daughter trapped the infiltrator in the bathroom and blocked the door using a bed, “She used the time when he was in the bathroom to call a neighbor in an emergency squad and her husband who is an IDF officer.” At that time, however, the man climbed out the window and ran away.
By the time the neighbor, the police and the IDF arrived at the house, the assailant had already fled. The security forces then started chasing the assailant, who was caught by the troops some two kilometers from the scene. They followed arrest protocol before shooting him down.
The IDF was looking into a possibility that the man was coming from the Hubers Route, which runs along Israel’s security fence with the Gaza Strip.
Or Gadashi, who lives next door to the family, and whose husband rushed to Yael’s house after the latter had called him added: “We never imagined anything like this happening. Thank God it ended the way it did and that she’s strong enough to deal with this.”
Haim Yalin, head of the Eshkol Regional Council in Israel’s south, which was targeed by numerous rockets during Operation Pillar of Defense, noted that “The woman is a true hero; she managed to chase him away.”
The councilman added that “There are many infiltrations by terrorists who are caught. This is the first time that a terrorist makes it into a house.”
As for the family, Matzpun told Ynet: “No one is really panicking. My daughter is better; they stitched her cuts and the children aren’t exhibiting any signs if distress.”
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