A HOSTAGE ASKED FOR ONE THING BEFORE HE WAS MURDERED Remember this name. Ori Danino. His picture appears in the first comment below. Ori was at the Nova party on October 7. He escaped to his car and was driving to safety. Some people who he first met the day before at the party called him and asked if he could help them. Ori turned his car around. He drove back to the site of the terror attack. Ori went back to save Maya and Itay Regev, and Omer Shem Tov. All four were taken hostage. But Ori didn’t allow himself to be taken hostage easily. He punched the terrorist who kidnapped him, breaking his skull and causing him to lose his sight. At some point during the kidnapping Ori was shot in the shoulder and ended up in captivity in Gaza with a bullet lodged in his shoulder. During the first few days in captivity Ori physically fought with the Hamas terrorists so that they would give medical treatment to Hersh Goldberg Polin, whose arm was blown off during the kidnapping. Thanks to Ori’s struggle, the terrorists worked to at least close Hersh’s wound. Ori spent time in captivity with Eliya Cohen. Ori asked Eliyah to promise that if Ori was killed but Eliya survived, he would make sure that a Torah scroll was written in his memory. Ori was executed by Hamas terrorists in September. Eliya was freed after spending 505 days in captivity. (The three hostages that Ori went back to save - Maya and Itay Regev, and Omer Shem Tov - have also been released) Eliya told Ori’s family about his wish for a Torah scroll to be written in his memory. And a few days ago, his wish was fulfilled. The Torah scroll cover includes the sentence that Ori was fond of saying: “I want to be good enough for the world to be the person I would want to spend time with.” WATCH as Ori’s parents go to Ori’s grave and his father informs Ori that a Sefer Torah has been completed in his memory as per his wish…
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