{"id":8286,"date":"2009-02-21T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T04:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2009-02-21T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T04:23:24","slug":"marc-gafnis-son-survives-15-days-in-gaza-to-get-injured-in-a-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8286","title":{"rendered":"Marc Gafni&#8217;s Son Survives 15 Days In Gaza To Get Injured In A Car Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcgafni.com\/?p=1266&amp;lan=english\">Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Eytan just got back from 15 horrendous days as the commander of a group of Israeli special forces commandos who were serving in Gaza. I will not &#8211; at this time &#8211; tell the stories he told me. They are stories of death. And heroism and man&rsquo;s insanity against man. Three times he met death only to miss it by a fraction, a hairs breadth or in the tragic way of the soldier standing for a value higher then even life &#8211; he was left with no option other then to deal out death to protect life.<\/p>\n<p>After Gaza he spent two weeks with his unit &#8211; re training- readying for whatever might happen next. A day or two after that &#8211; he caught a ride from the base towards his Kibbutz. There was a head on collision. He was thrown from the car with his leg caught in the door.<\/p>\n<p>It is beyond a miracle that he is alive. One leg was badly damaged. After two surgeries, he is now in Safed waiting to be moved to Tel HaShomer, an army rehabilitation hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni blogs: Eytan just got back from 15 horrendous days as the commander of a group of Israeli special forces commandos who were serving in Gaza. I will not &#8211; at this time &#8211; tell the stories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[16355,16356,16354,10104,16357,16353],"class_list":["post-8286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gafni","tag-eytan","tag-head-on-collision","tag-israeli-special-forces","tag-marc-gafni","tag-rehabilitation-hospital","tag-tel-hashomer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}