This video of this evening’s terror attack at the Jerusalem Central Bus station shows the response as the attack unfolds. At 18 seconds into the video we see a border policeman getting a hitch from a scooter driver, presumably to get closer to the scene to assist. As the videos of this and other attacks show, in Israel, civilians often run towards the danger to assist in one way or another and not away from the threat seeking safety.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Video: Medabrim Tikshoret)
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Why would someone attack a scooter? I hope it is OK.
YWN “Police officer hitches ride during attack on scooter” sounds like there was a attack on a scooter. “Police officer hitches a ride on a scooter to respond to a terrorist attack” sounds more like it.
Am Yisrael, Am Echad!
When we are under attack like this, there are no more games, or superficiality. Here in Eretz Hakodosh everything is shaking but many people are also waking up from superficialities and focusing on coming close to HKBH and feeling of achdus with other Yidden. We are surrounded on all sides from wherever you look, in every way, with knives, guns, screwdrivers, peelers, missiles… The only thought that makes sense now is Ain od Milvado.
Besuros Tovos!
This is an extremely dangerous situation. It can be a ploy for a second act. People should not be running into the danger zone and often getting in the way of security personnel like that. Not to be congratulated.
Every other guy either trained with the army or is a volunteer for Ichud Hatzala, so they actually can be of assistance… It’s not like a bomb went off (baruch Hashem), “second acts” have been going on for weeks, unfortunately – you’re not necessarily safer on the street than heading towards a knife attack, which everyone is alerted to already. And this was at the central bus station – people still need to get places; as scared as everyone feels (underlying always, overtly sometimes more than others), life has to go on. People aren’t going to turn around and desert the bus station – things will resume eventually and the buses will start moving again; the wait will just be a little longer. And since I haven’t heard any official statement asking people to not do this, I think it wise, in a time when Klal Yisroel needs all the zechuyos they can get, to focus on the positive. You know that story with R’ Elimelech on Pesach – he asked for all the things that had been outlawed, and found them all, but couldn’t find a single crumb of chametz? He could have also chided everyone for not being safe themselves, as well as endangering the community, by having illegal goods in their homes. But he used the instance to praise the Yidden to Hashem.