True Story: A Leaky Coffee Saved Her Life On October 7

have an amazing story to tell you about something that happened on the 7th of October in Ofakim in the south of Israel, pretty close to the Gaza border. And this true story happened to a geriatric nurse. Her name is Lillian Beaton. And she's a Shomer Shabbat, but since she's a nurse and she works with people, her entire work is saving lives, she has a dispensation but with dispensation to work on Shabbat cuz she saves lives. And as she was also the rabbi's permitted that she get on the bus on the bus to pick her up on a special shift and early Shabbat morning. It was October 7th and Shabbat and Simchat Torah. And the bus came by very early in the morning about the 6:30, quarter to 7:00. And she came down to the bus with a cup of hot coffee in a paper cup. And all of a sudden she felt something burning her hand and she found a little hole in the cup. So what she did, she ran back up into her apartment right close to the bus stop and wanted to change the cup so she wouldn't lose a cup of coffee. Meanwhile, while she ran back, she heard shooting in the street. And she looked out of the of her window and she saw there the street was full of terrorists. Terrorists had from Gaza, they swarmed the town of Ofakim. Well, she locked herself in her in the house and and she went into her mamad, her her her shelter, locked herself in the room, spent the next 8 hours in there until special forces of the border police came in and freed it. It was a 24-hour battle and before the town was freed. And what she found that saved her life. But have to look at what saved her life. It was a paper cup that saved her life.