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The Unknown Hero Who Saved Hundreds of People from Hamas - Rami Davidian: Land of Israel Fellowship
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the heroism of just a simple Jew living
in the land of Israel you never would
have known that there are superheroes
that walk around us and they don't have
capes and they don't have superpowers
because to be courageous when you have a
superpower isn't really that courageous
but to be courageous when you're just a
guy and those bullets can go right
through you and take you out of this
world that's true heroism and so this is
a story of a man named Ramy Davidian
and here's a picture of him he's 58
years old he's married to eres he has
four children the oldest of his children
is 34 and the youngest of his children
is 14 he grew up in a family of 11
children on a farm in the South his
parents um were from a that kind of the
Kurdish country that's like the region
around Iraq around like the area Turk
it's like a little bit undefined and
their mother tongue was Arabic and he
grew up in Israel speaking Hebrew and
working the land and they had chickens
and they lived on the farm and that's
how they made their living and they
lived a hardworking simple life
connected to erit Israel traditional
Believers in God and they lived there
his whole life he lived on that moshav
patish in the northern NE just outside
the Kut that were attacked in October
7th and he said that from the time he
was born he's been living in patisha
that's his home it's like one big family
there he everyone knows each other and
he says there's something really strong
and powerful about living in such a
tight-knit community he says he has
three brothers there and another three
brothers that live in ofakim a small
town near his moshav and October 7 he
was drinking a cup of coffee before
going to synagogue and he had no idea
what was about to happen at 6:45 he gets
a frantic call from his friend who was
begging him on the phone Ramy there's a
balagan you live close go and drive and
get the son of one of my friends he's
right by the music festival near Rim I
told him saaba no problem he sent me the
location and I went driving not really
knowing that much of what was going on
and after driving a few hundred meters I
see a car on fire with people shot
inside I get back in the car and call
the police but there's no answer I
thought maybe this was some sort of uh
attack between bedwin Clans in the South
so I just continued driving after a
kilometer or so I see exhausted young
men and women running in panic in all
directions I shouted at them come to me
and I started picking them up they
crammed into the car as much as possible
I didn't understand exactly what was
happening but it was clear that we had
to get them out of there in the process
I called my son-in-law and other people
from the mosab that I live in and I told
them that I needed help and that they
should open up the shelters in the
moshav and take care of all of the guys
and girls that I was bringing to them
and I wanted these children to get to a
safe place so after dropping them off he
went back right back to the party to
rescue more young people and all the
while as he's going through Hills and
Valleys he realizes he's being fired
upon by terrorists and they're running
in every direction they're shooting
rocket propelled grenades missing his
car firing up bullets all around him his
car has bullets penetrating and he says
after driving another kilometer he sees
another young couple hiding in the
bushes in the pits and he shouted to
them hey this is Ramy come with me they
come out scared from hiding and again 15
children cram into his car and on the
way young Med shared with him all the
Horrors that they saw they told me there
are dozens of terrorists who arrived on
foot on motorcycle in Vans they're
shooting they're murdering everyone in
Cold Blood and that's when he finally
understood that we were in the middle of
a
catastrophe and as the hours passed he
received more and more names of friends
who were in distress in the field and
needed rescue from The Inferno and due
to lack of the response of the police or
the IDF my phone went through everyone
and I received endless panicked messages
from parents and siblings and worried
friends from all over the country
sending him locations on WhatsApp how to
find them and so they wanted to find a
police officer he wanted to rescue
whoever he could but he was unarmed and
he realized there was no choice but to
just keep on driving and to try to save
as many lives as possible and all along
the road he seeing bullet riddled
vehicles on fire bodies laying on the
ground he said it was heartbreaking he
raised his eyes to the sky and prayed
for help from the creator of the world
and in one of the moments he felt as
though God touched him he got a location
from a friend and he went to go and find
her she hid in the field and I drove
towards her she wrote me I'm begging you
it's urgent come quickly there were
Internet outages so I was on the line
with her I honked my horn and asked her
to say according how she if she could
hear me is she close not hot cold where
is she she couldn't find him finally
five minutes she somehow finally got
close to her he got out of the car and
ran towards her and this is his quote to
my astonishment I saw her surrounded by
six terrorists I saw the armed terrorist
and at first moment I froze in place I
didn't know what I was going to do but
God's hand touched me and I began to
speak with them in Arabic with
confidence I said to them how are you
I'm Abu Rami I'm a Muslim like you
listen there's soldiers on the way here
they're going to kill all of us let's
run away give me that girl I'll take her
with me and you run away there and after
a few minutes of back and forth they
actually listened to me I quickly put
her in my car and drove away am meet the
girl was in severe trauma on the way I
called my wife to receive her and try to
calm her down until her family arrived
for the first 48 hours from
6:45 October 7th Ramy continued and he
rescued more and more people looking for
survivors and rescuing everyone he could
all under heavy fire he says each rescue
was more difficult than the previous one
I didn't see my house my children I
didn't think about anything other than
that apart from the rescues I also
collected a lot of bodies I was working
non-stop I saw these children as my
children and I was working on automatic
like a machine I don't know why God
chose me but did everything that I could
who ever thought about being a hero
anyway I'm often asked how did I have
the courage to enter an area infested
with armed terrorists and the truth is I
don't know I'm not a hero I was unarmed
and it was scary but I hope that anyone
else who comes in such a situation and
saw children that needed to be saved
would do exactly the same to save the
the children I believe that God's hand
touched me in those hours and directed
me where to go what to do where to take
those children and as I'm driving
through the Wades and Fields when above
me and around me there's nonstop
shooting and bullets hit my car and I
get out without a scratch there's no
explanation other then that was God's
hand protecting me for me it was clear I
have a mission and I thank God for
giving me the right to do
it he had one more message for the
Jewish people living in Israel today and
he said it's important to remember that
for those terrorist we were all Jews
even when I rescued the children from
the party I didn't ask who leftwing and
who's right-wing who's religious and
who's secular I saved everyone because
we are all Jews and we are all brothers
and sisters we should also remember and
never forget
that and so that is one of the most
unbelievable stories that I've heard so
far from the world can we put his
picture back up there Tabitha his name
was Ramy
Davidian and he sells gas to the farmers
in southern Israel he's not a fancy man
he's not a superhero
but my Lord the courage to do one act
you know I can wrap my mind around that
you know you the house is on fire
there's an elderly man inside go inside
the house and pull him
out I can wrap my mind around that but
every time he dropped those children off
he had to go back and forth and back and
forth Ramy ended up saving
700 children from that music festival
together with his
MAV the level of heroism is just
beyond