Elad is having a hard time recovering from the attack: "Shabbat is coming and there is no living soul in the city"

Elad residents entered Shabbat, after the attack in which Yonatan Habakkuk, Boaz Gol and Oren Ben Yiftach were killed.

"Feeling fear and apprehension," city boys said, "feeling insecure."

Another resident described the empty city streets: "Just silence, everyone is gathered in themselves and in personal, private and national mourning"

Karin Sagi and Shlomi Heller

06/05/2022

Friday, May 6, 2022, 7:00 p.m.

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The son of one of the wounded in the attack in Elad is recovering.

May 6, 2022 (use under section 27A of the Copyright Law)

Elad residents were shocked by the murder that took place on Thursday evening in the city streets, in which Yonatan Habakkuk, Boaz Gol and Oren Ben Yiftach were murdered.

Preparations for Shabbat have changed, and the entire city is having a hard time recovering.

"Feeling fear and apprehension," said city residents, "there is a feeling of insecurity."

Boys living in Elad, who returned on the night of the attack.

"At 20:35 a police car stops and the policemen tell me, 20 meters away there is an attack," said one of them.

"I saw three motorcycles pass the square in the first arena, near the wheat square. As soon as they said the terrorists were turning around, I went home."

The boy tried to return to the scene, but said "the adrenaline had taken over and there was a mess" so he returned home.

Jonathan Habakkuk, who was killed in the attack, was a friend of the father of one of the boys.

"He was happy all the time, kind," he described.

"He would call everyone 'our brother,' and that's how we called him, 'our brother.'"

He added about the feeling of fear he felt.

"First attack in the city, we did not leave the yeshiva until they came to pick us up in the car, we were really scared," he recalled.

Another boy stated that he lived close to the forest, to which the terrorists reportedly fled.

"I did not leave the house because I was afraid they were right next to us. My mother did not let me leave the house. It was full of noise from the police," he said.

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"I did not leave the house. We were really scared."

The entrance to Elad, today (Photo: Flash 90, Avshalom Shashoni)

Iris Younes, resident of Elad (Photo: Official website, from Facebook)

Iris Younes, a resident of the city, asked not to put politics into the discourse.

"A very difficult atmosphere, it's terribly sad. There are plenty who do sacred work - policemen, soldiers, all the security forces, everyone came to help," she noted.

She, too, described the sense of horror that befell her.

"We were afraid to enter the house, soldiers entered the yard with us, scanned the area and made sure there was no one there. There are benefactors in the city who help."

She said the whole city was flooded with mourning.

"Shabbat is coming in and there is no living soul in the city, people are always walking around and now there is just silence. Everyone is gathered in themselves and in the personal, private and national mourning. Unpleasant atmosphere."

She noted that the city organizes intensive prayers and strives to help all the youth, "everyone has been shaken, they need to be wrapped up and social workers and psychologists are involved."

"I wish it was over."

The scene of the attack, today (Photo: Flash 90, official website)

"Elad knew tragedies, but it's something we did not know," she said, "it always seems far away and not here."

She added, "Now was Independence Day - the phrase 'to be a free people in our country' was not implemented, unfortunately."

She wished complete healing to the wounded, "We will all wrap the families, it is important to pray for everyone," she exclaimed, "I wish it would be over."

Meanwhile, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rishon LeZion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, called on every gun license holder to bring him to the synagogue.

"Due to the tense security situation, public security must be assisted," he explained, "and it is appropriate to keep the weapons modest, so that they do not stand out."

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