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we have friends of ours in baltimore and i think it was a year ago already there was this incredible story where they went to israel and they had something that really had us all worried and praying and the story that they tell and the story that happened is unbelievable check out this video and we'll be right back with my good friend the predators from baltimore [Music] this look at me foreign [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] let's go meet the predators right now we are joined um with yeti and leia preda thank you so much for joining us on the show thank you for having us so it is an incredible story and give us a little bit of you know these are the miracles that are obvi this this is a thing a little bit more of a um an obvious one right and it's something that i know that has captured the attention of so many but for someone that's going through it now and now that you're past it share this a little bit about what this did for you the impact this story had on you and how you see every single day um it really made me more appreciative in every aspect of life and that daily occurrences that happen during the day shouldn't be just looked at as nature but can be looked at as a miracle and just like god did this for me then god's involved in every aspect of our lives and we should always remember that amazing as as as a dad and i'm sure you speak for you and your wife as parents um once you you got her i don't want to go back before that part but once you got her and um you know we we take for granted sometimes you know the the health and safety and security of god's help it should always be of our children what was that like um while you were going through the ordeal and post when you had her out um in terms of your relationship to that story and and the appreciation and the miracle that it contained i still get chills every time i watch the video and you know think about it it's uh emotional time but um just makes us grateful for the family we have and sharing our family on hanukkah now and you mentioned um you know it's like the final judgment the last day of hanukkah and we're you know i know you said not to talk about before but when i'm holding on to those uh strings the video only showed you know when there's lots and lots of people coming to help but initially when i got there it was just me and one other person you know holding on to their strings and she was literally hanging by a thread so it makes me realize and our family realized that you know not to take life for granted and that we you know we have to count their blessings every day that we're together that every day that we're healthy and alive what if i can ask what was going through your mind while you were holding those strings what were you thinking i don't and you don't have to answer but i'm just so and i know everyone is watching us thinking the exact same thing so i'm asking on behalf of everybody else because it's so heroic um what was going through your mind during that period of time instinctively i wanted to pull on the strings and pull her out she was screaming help i i can't hold on anymore i'm you know giving up and you know it was a long time until help came and i kept telling her that help is coming and the other person who was there was actually from another paragliding company his name was david and he had seen that something was going wrong leia didn't know that she was about to crash and there were so many miracles along the way major miracles that happened that we learned about afterwards but um he told me don't pull on the strings because if you pull on it they could rip so the whole time just holding on for dear life you know as strong as as hard as i could trying to calm lay it down so that she continues holding on and then just looking in the sky to see when the helicopter would come when the magenta dome would come when united atsalah would come and they all came and it's like one big family in israel where everyone's just trying to help each other all these people volunteers you know looking out for our need risking their lives to save leia's life so it was just really heartwarming but it still brings it gives me chills every time i see it sure leah what was going on through your mind if we can ask you again you don't have to answer we can go to the happier times but sure what were you thinking because it's bravery you know it's it doesn't it doesn't you know being able to hold on with that level of fear is is a big deal and you know you're a young girl so so you know you're some you're someone special so tell us what was going on through your mind during this period of time um i definitely thought that we wouldn't make it but then the only thing i could think of to do was to call out to god to help and that's what happened and god saved us wow that's so awesome such an interesting concept that i want to bring up before i let you go because i can talk to you guys all night but you know we spoke earlier to a man named mark who was the security of one of the security heads in israel and in judea at samaria and we spoke about this idea of being part of the miracle now sometimes in life god doesn't show up in poof miracles right he uses us to be conduits and sometimes it's for us and when we are engaged in very difficult things and we have that level of faith while we're going through them we emerge now let me ask you you you're when you come out of this of course you're more appreciative in life and but has this turned made you more even more resilient even more able to take on challenges knowing that you know you can you you've overcome so much and you must have incredible power that's just coming out of you yeah for sure for sure helped me i think about it like during hard times that if i could get through that then i could get through anything amazing well to the predator family we thank you for being on we thank you for inspiring everybody we thank you for your leadership both in the baltimore community and across the country and thank you for what you've done and and post and post fact though just how much this story has inspired and and helped other people appreciate what they have so thank you thank you very much i made this because we're filled with only light only good light amen amen thank you thank you thank you so much and it's such an incredible opportunity for us to celebrate with the predators and when these stories happen to really appreciate them and what i'm finding from this and i hope you're taking from this is the idea of small miracles the idea of hidden miracles is not just we recognize it's we are a part of it right i want you to picture leia holding on for dear life as a young girl and understanding that if she calls out to god he is not going to just magically send to angels to float her up maybe but maybe he's going to put something inside her that will bring that essence the strength that she had and make her the person that she now is it's we're part of the miracle story it's an incredible concept of what's going on every single day if we just open our eyes