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Friday, February 7, 2025

Agam Berger Prayed To Have A Siddur. A Terrorist Fulfilled Her Wish

 


  Freed hostage Agam Berger inspired many with the story of how she bravely fought to maintain her Jewish values while in captivity, refusing to cook for the terrorists on Shabbat or to eat any meat despite the lack of available food. Agam’s mother had prayed that she would not be released on Shabbat as this would cause desecration of Shabbat by the news outlets, and in the end she was the only surveillance soldier released on a weekday.


Agam related recently how she managed to obtain a Siddur in Gaza, enabling her to pray daily.

I really wanted to pray while in captivity and I prayed to Hashem to send me a Siddur. I asked one of the terrorists if they had a book with Jewish prayers inside? He laughed and two days later brought me a Rinat Yisrael siddur. He said: Your G-d loves you, we  found this. It is likely that one of the soldiers forgot this in Khan Younis.’

 

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