Less than a month ago, Jerusalem policewoman Hodaya Halperin was part of a team of rescue workers, firemen and police who responded to a call about a suicidal person in the neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev, Jerusalem.
The man had been barricaded inside his home for days, not allowing people to enter, and worried family members and neighbors called for help. The police and fireman communicated with the man for forty minutes before deciding to break down the door.
At this point, the man, later named as Chaim Tagar, drew a firearm. As the door was opened, he fired, hitting a policewoman standing behind the firemen in the head and critically injuring her.
Immediately after the shooting, an elite SWAT team (Yasam) took control of Tagar, seized the firearm, and arrested him. After the incident, Tagar (60) even attempted suicide on the way to the police station. He later said that he was “sorry about what had happened.”
The policewoman, Hodaya Halperin, was quickly transferred to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital. One of the United Hatzalah medics who was at the scene shared on the day of the incident: “I heard the policewoman tell her colleague, ‘You’re getting married in a month, don’t go upstairs.'” She was shot a few minutes later.
The colleague is in fact getting married on the first night of Chanukah. Just a few hours earlier, Halperin, who has undergone multiple operations over the last month, woke up in hospital and managed to speak with people around her, including family members and hospital staff. May she make a full and speedy recovery
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