Israeli Yaakov filmed this as he tried to get himself, his pregnant wife, and two kids to safety.
https://www.facebook.com/YaakovLehman/videos/10105074088941917/
At around 2am this evening, terrorists set fire to my small mountain village of Beit Meir. They lit multiple blazes, surrounding the only exit from our moshav with a gulf of flames.
As you can imagine, this made it exceedingly difficult for myself, my pregnant wife, and two kids to escape to safety. We, along with our neighbors, were trapped.
After about an hour of harrowing confusion, firefighters managed to clear a path for the 100 families of Beit Meir to flee the inferno. I watched as dozens of righteous firefighters and police faded into the smokey distance of my rear view mirror.
We fled to Beit Shemesh, and were warmly taken in at 330am by Rabbi Gerzi and his unceasingly kind family.
For what’s it’s worth, I got out my phone to document the deluge. Perhaps it will give you a glimpse (as it did for me the first time) of the first hand horrors wrought by terrorists seeking to harm innocent civilians.
It’s 438am now, my kids are back asleep, and my village is no doubt still in flames. My parents are on a plane, somewhere over the Atlantic, oblivious to the chaos that awaits their arrival in Israel. Houses are still ablaze and the forest is a sea of fire. I don’t know if I will have a house to return to. I just hope everyone managed to escape safely.
Pray for us.
Notice how even in these most scary and stressful times, he thinks to bless the firefighters and police.
Please pray for Israel and those like Yaakov and his family uprooted by this pyroterrorism.
