God Shows His Love For Those Who Work To Defend Innocent Human Life!
Please take a couple of
minutes and read this, this is a true history. My
sister, who lives in Israel, sent it to me.
This was in the news in Israel, I thought you might like to read
this story.
Jack & Sonia.
The Efrat Organization, dedicated to fighting unnecessary abortions,
tells the
story of a soldier who was saved by his friend - who himself had
been saved
before birth, in "unique" circumstances.
The Efrat organization, dedicated to preventing the #1 cause of
death in Israel
- abortion - continues to register successes. In the year 2004,
Efrat saved the
lives of 1,658 Jewish children in Israel, by providing social and
financial
support to mothers who had planned to abort for socio-economic and
related
reasons. The number of successes in 2003 was 1,448.
Recently, a story was publicized in a work entitled Aleinu
L'Shabe'ach (We Must
Praise) by Rabbi Zilberstein of Bnei Brak, son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef
Shalom
Elyashiv and the rabbinic advisor to the Maayanei HaYeshuah Hospital
in Bnei
Brak. Though the names have been changed, the facts are accurate, as
testified
to by more than one person. The incident occurred as follows:
Yoav, a young IDF soldier, was manning an isolated guard post in
Hevron in the
middle of the night when he was shot by an Arab sniper. With no one
to help him,
and unable to radio for help, it appeared that he would bleed to
death before he
could be found. Another soldier, however, did hear something. Not
sure, he went
to investigate, and spotted Yoav lying on the ground, bleeding
profusely.
The soldier immediately began to administer first aid, and arranged
for Yoav to
be transported to a medical facility - applying manual pressure
until the
ambulance could arrive. Eventually, Yoav arrived and was treated at
a proper
medical facility. The doctors told his parents that had it not been
for the
immediate and appropriate actions of the other soldier, their son
Yoav would
definitely not have survived. It was indeed a miracle that the other
soldier
heard what no one else heard, the parents felt, and looked for him
to thank him.
But he had already left the hospital.
During Yoav's recovery period, his family called the army to find
out the name
of the soldier who had saved Yoav's life. No one knew. Finally,
Yoav's parents
put up a sign in the grocery store they own in Kiryat Malachi. They
described
the miracle that had occurred, and asked for information on the
identity of
Yoav's savior. "Israel is a small country," they thought, "and
someone might know someone who knows someone, etc."
It took a year. A woman entered the store one day and saw the sign.
She was
positive that her son Doron had mentioned such an account. She took
out her
cellphone and called Doron on the spot. Sure enough, he remembered
the incident
quite well, and it was he who had saved Yoav's life.
Soon all the families gathered together for a joyful, tearful
celebration - but
one of the mothers knew that there was an extra reason to celebrate.
Doron's
mother pulled Yoav's mother aside and told her,
"There is a specific reason why I came to your store today. You
don't
remember me, but twenty years ago, I was standing in your store
feeling lost and
forlorn. You and your wonderful husband noticed how sad I looked and
asked me
what was the matter. I explained that I was pregnant and was
overwhelmed. There
were so many unbearable difficulties, financially, socially and
emotionally. I
had decided that the only way out was to have an abortion.
"You both stopped everything, and calmly and lovingly sat with me.
You
listened to me. Then you offered so much encouragement and support.
Because of
you, everything began to look different and I chose to keep my baby.
I no longer
live around here, but I happened to be passing through and I figured
it would be
nice to visit your store again to thank you once again for all that
you did for
me. The name of that precious baby was Doron. My beloved Doron, who
would not
have been born were it not for you, grew up to save your son Yoav's
life."
THIS MESSAGE
IS SENT TO YOU FROM KENNETH FISHER OF THE "CONCERNED ROMAN
CATHOLICS OF AMERICA"