By United with Israel Staff
Rabbi Avishai Yehezkel was among the victims of a horrific attack carried out by a Palestinian terrorist in Bnei Brak on Tuesday night. This is the third such attack in recent days, all of which appear to be connected to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
According to reports in the Israeli media, Yehezkel, a 29-year-old husband and father, was killed while he took his young son for a walk.
The boy couldn’t sleep and the young father, who serves as a second grade teacher in a local religious school, was trying to get him to doze off in his stroller.
The victim’s brother, Ovadia Yehezkel, said at the funeral that Avishai phoned him to warn him that he heard gunshots down on the street, reported Haaretz.
Not long after, the gunman took aim at Yehezkel.
At that point, the young father placed his own body in front of his beloved son to protect him from the bullets.
“Last night the world turned upside down. You called me and said ‘I hear shots, be careful, stay inside the house.’ And that’s it. I heard no more from you. You cared for us more than you cared for yourself,” Ovadia said at the funeral, which was reported by Haaretz.
“You took the bullets like an eagle. You said: ‘It would be better for him to hurt me than the child,'” he added, alluding to the Bible’s imagery of an eagle protecting its young.
