Ester Cunio (90) lived in a kibbutz when the terrorist organization attacked Israel on October 7. She revealed that the name of the world soccer star was her safe passage to survival.

"Don't talk to me, because I don't know your language. Arabic. And I speak Hebrew badly," he told them. "Then I tell him: I'm from where Messi is from. And he answers 'Messi? I like Messi', "said the woman.