In the house where I grew up, Geula Cohen was both flesh and blood and a fairytale figure. She was the brave Lehi warrior who fought for Israeli freedom, but also the one who came to accompany me to the middle school quiz. She was a Knesset member who fought for the integrity of the country, and also the boss of Mother in the Science Ministry. Such was, tough and soft, combative and loving. With the lacquer, the headlines mourn the warrior and hear the stories of her underground stories on the radio and television, but the sensitive side, which made her do everything for her Jewish brothers in exile, is less so.

One story I heard from my mom folds into it all the sides of this extraordinary woman. Before Operation Solomon, Redemption came to Ethiopia and took with her her young assistant, my mother. There, while speaking in one of the Joint's makeshift schools and wishing the children "next year in Jerusalem," a Jewish girl named Hannah came to Geula to introduce herself, and you are her older brother a year, from Covenant. The two brothers told Redemption that eight years ago they went with their parents on foot to Jerusalem, but the parents died en route and they stayed with their grandmother and uncles. When the uncle fled so as not to enlist in the Ethiopian army and the grandmother went to jail, they were left alone, two children with their 12-year-old aunt. That evening, my mother called an acquaintance from Israel and told her he had friends from Ma'aleh Adumim eight years ago, on their way to Israel, their children became ill and they sent them back with the grandmother and asked her to try to locate them. Their names are Hannah and McVennant.

Ethiopian authorities refused to bring them on the flight with redemption. In a gesture made naturally, Redemption removed a precious pin from her shirt, wore it on Hannah's shirt and asked her not to take it off until they met in two weeks on the plane ramp, in Israel. Upon her return to Israel, Redemption went directly to Prime Minister Shamir to arrange for the emigration of Ethiopian Jews, including Hannah and Covenant, to her country.

Hannah came to Israel two weeks later, lived in Redemption in Jerusalem, studied special education and worked in the field. She, too, came to cry with my mother at the funeral of this great woman.

In the days when the underground legacy takes on the character of ancient history and the witnesses are dwindling, it is important to remember the warring redemption that endangered her life for state independence, but also the redemption that gave her a pin to a Jewish girl in Ethiopia, and promised to bring her home to Israel.

Redemption was "anonymous soldiers" and also a public figure. She was raised for life, and from her mission - her mission for the people of Israel and the Land of Israel - only released her to death.