Almost two years after her husband Yehuda was murdered in a terrorist attack in Homesh, his widow Etya became engaged today (Sunday) to her sweetheart, Eitan David Elia.
Yehuda Dimentman z"l, his wife Etya and their son David, photo: courtesy of the family
Yehuda (25) was murdered in a shooting attack near the site of Homesh, and alongside his wife, he left behind a baby who was only six months old at the time of the attack.
After her husband's murder, Dimentman worked extensively to renew the activities of the yeshiva where he studied in Homesh. "Yehuda didn't leave me a will. In the past, he was asked on a forum on Channel 7 what you would do if you only had one week left to live, and Yehuda replied, "Study Torah on the Pentateuch." Six and a half years ago, that's what he wrote," she said at the time.
Photo: Yoni Rikner
She demanded that then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett not evacuate Homesh and arrange her meeting there: "I turn to Prime Minister Bennett, there is a yeshiva in Homesh and it must be arranged and secured, there are righteous young men there who give their lives for all the people of Israel, for those who live in Tel Aviv, the Negev and New York - they are our Sayeret Matkal, soldiers without uniforms."
Etya Dimentman at a rally against the evacuation of Homesh and marking 30 days since Yehuda's murder, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Israel Hayom reported last week that Ministers Yoav Galant and Bezalel Smotrich had agreed to renew the permit for Jews to come to Homesh, inter alia for the purpose of studying in a yeshiva. Last night, Central Command Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs signed the order carrying this out. This is actually the implementation of the Disengagement Law, which was passed in March by the Knesset in a reading.
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