Two years ago, on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, the Brodutch family was among countless Israeli families who were awoken by the sirens that signal a present threat.
Avicahi Brodutch, the family patriarch, ushered his wife and children into their safe room as he went to the armory. He, like many others, tried to fend off the Hamas terrorists that infiltrated southern Israel in what became the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history.
He was injured by shrapnel fighting Hamas militants in his community of Kfar Aza and was hospitalized, while his wife, three children, and their neighbor’s child, an American girl named Abigail Idan, who was orphaned in the attack, were among those kidnapped and brought back to Gaza.
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