"It changed my life":
Renana Meir Cohen, daughter of the late Dafna Meir, who was murdered outside her home in Atniel in 2016, wrote a post today (Wednesday) that she dedicated to the victim of the attack in Holon, Shulamit Rachel Ovadia.
In the post, she revealed for the first time an attempted terrorist attack in which she was present a year and a half after her mother's murder, when the three events (last night's attack, the attack in which her mother was murdered and the attempted attack) were carried out by a single attacker. Renana came out with a sharp statement: "They stupidly call it the 'terror of the lonesome' - this is alone One, a few is already a pattern."
"He raised the button in my direction"
At the beginning of the post she wrote: "A year after the attack, the old house where I grew up was deep in intensive renovation. It was a few weeks before the wedding, I went out to the car to hang one of the festive clothes in the back seat, when one of the workers got out after me. He was brown and tall with a colored jacket Red. He crossed to the other side of the road, stood by the small concrete mixer, looked at me for a long time and then raised the long stick he had in his hand in my direction. A narrow and empty road separated us. At the vigilance I curse every morning - because it turns my life into a bad gear Probably - I got into the car, locked the doors and inserted the key without a code so that the car's alarm went off. My father heard and went out."
Renana and her father Natan in Shiva, archive, photo: Miri Tzachi
Ranana added: "They didn't call it an attack because no one died. They didn't call it an attack because that family's house was physically and mentally destroyed. They didn't call it an attack because there were no sounds of gunfire nor a weapon whose purpose was to kill. They didn't call it an attack because , because I don't know why, because another event, was just another event.
"One thing I know. It made my life more difficult than the first time. It left no room for longing or the feeling of choice in life. It left destruction and destruction without much willpower to rebuild. The one who died there in those moments was the belief that it was only a single terrorist , the one who murdered my mother. 'Terror of the lonely' they foolishly called it. Lonely is one, lonely is already a pattern."
She also said: "Since then I don't pass by construction sites and when there are workers on the street I cross to the other side. TMA 38 - The very phrase sends a shiver through me. 'Be realistic' they tell me, so I am realistic and that's why my head is already able to move 360 degrees . If workers enter the supermarket, they leave with displeasure (or remain with the audacity reserved only for them) because my eyes don't move from them in a disturbing section. I don't approach certain chains. Sorry for the shaming."
The scene of the murder in Holon, photo: Yossi Zeliger
At the end of the article: "'God takes the best', maybe. And maybe this is also just a statistic that I was 'privileged' to take part in. After all, what are the chances that I, a 17-year-old girl, will meet myself in two terrorist attacks within a year and a half? The chance is 100%, Because when you meet the only chance - then it's a hundred. It takes life and throws it in all directions. Doesn't leave much room to glue the pieces back together.
"I am writing this today in memory of Shulamit Rachel Ovadia. Another woman who was murdered in front of her house and did not have the chance to defend herself. I am also writing this in memory of all those people who threatened them with an ax, but did not call them victims of terrorism, even though their souls are burned A long time ago. The chance is 100%. Don't think not. You've heard of Daphne's mother and also of Shulamit. Not everything else."
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