Sgt. Adi Baruch's boyfriend proposed to her at her funeral

Adi Baruch in uniform on her way to Sderot

A young female Israeli reservist, Sgt. Adi Baruch, 23, was killed in Sderot by Hamas terrorists. Jewish dead are supposed to be buried within a day when possible. She had been killed on October 13th but was buried two days later. [H/T Times of Israel.]

As her funeral came to an end, her boyfriend, Nevo Yanai, approached her grave holding a white ring box. He kneeled by the grave in the cemetery in the town of Barkan in Samaria on October 15th and proposed to Adi, who had been a wedding photographer, before the terrorists struck.

Yanai had purchased the engagement ring several weeks earlier and was waiting for the right time to propose to her. She was his high school sweetheart and has served as a former operations sergeant and was serving as a reservist in Sderot. She had insisted her unit commanders draft her to serve again following the October 7th Hamas slaughter of 1,400 Jewish civilians. 

“I just needed to hear myself propose to her,” Yanai told Channel 13 after the funeral. “I looked at her, at her grave, I told her about our life together and how from a very young age, she stole my heart,” he said.

Among the Hamasshole's first victims were hundreds of young adults at a desert music festival near the border with Gaza when the sneak attack occurred. The terrorists hunted the Israelis down, perpetrating barbaric atrocities, as they progressed toward kibbutzim, villages and cities near Gaza. 

About 2,000 Hamas terrorists participated in the incursion and slaughter, and about 220 hostages were also taken including babies as young as 9 months, women and elderly as old as 85. 

Since the sneak attack by the terrorists, the IDF responded immediately. Over 6,000 Palestinian human shields have died in Hamas targeted areas. The key is, if the number of those who die in collateral damage is fewer than those who might have died had Hamas not been neutralized, then it is perfectly acceptable.

Israel agrees that it needs to follow international law, and Israel is following international law. But why aren't the members of Congress' so called Squad holding Hamas up to the same expectations?

On Wednesday, 27 Chabad rabbis from the United States who are visiting Israel on a solidarity mission met with Baruch’s parents, Orit and Avraham, in Kiryat Netafim, a religious town near Barkan.

“We saw immediately where Adi of blessed memory got her qualities,” said Ruvi New, a Chabad rabbi of Boca Raton, Florida, referencing Adi Baruch’s parents. “Our mission here is to uplift spirits but we found ourselves being uplifted ourselves by Orit and Avraham, their faith and fortitude,” New, a 56-year-old father of 10, told The Times of Israel.

Orit Baruch, Adi's mother, told the visiting rabbis about her daughter. Yanai, her grieving would-be fiancé, wanted to leave the ring with Adi’s parents, Orit told the rabbis. But she asked him to keep it, “recover emotionally and find another woman to start a family with,” rabbi New said, quoting the bereaved mother.

Adi Baruch sent her mother a picture of herself smiling while wearing her uniform as she headed down to Sderot. She was satisfied that her lobbying with her unit resulted in a draft order conscripting her.

Avi, her father, who was also drafted, had proposed she sit out the fighting. She replied: “You did not raise me to sit it out here,” the parents recalled while meeting with the rabbis.

Anyone siding with Hamas in this war, is an evil anti-Semite who has no problem with the barbaric killing of Jewish people. Some of those people actually consider themselves Christians, and almost all of them are on the far left.

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