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Heroic Nurse Was Shot by Hamas as She Treated Wounded at IDF Base
(Times of Israel) Renee Ghert-Zand - Michal Elon, 44, was with her husband and 8 of their children at the IDF Zikim training base on Oct. 7. Elon and her husband, Rabbi Omri Elon, often volunteer to spend the Sabbath on military bases, allowing IDF rabbis a break. When the incoming rocket sirens went off, they ran to the shelter with the trainee soldiers. Someone arrived saying that a female soldier had been hurt. "I said I was a nurse and that I could come out and see if I could help," Elon said. Elon moved the soldier to a room in a building close to the shelter and tried to care for her as best as possible. "Suddenly we heard shots and this soldier (who was standing at the door) fell into the room." Seconds later a terrorist appeared at the door. "He looked me in the eye, raised his gun, and shot me. He hit me in my arm, stomach, and chest." She quickly removed the headscarf she wears and tied it on her arm as a tourniquet. She staggered to the shelter and fell on the ground close to its entrance. Her husband stepped out and dragged her inside, where she told him what happened and instructed him on how to staunch her bleeding wounds. "The soldiers were amazing. They took off their shirts, and he took the shirts and he pressed the wounds so I wouldn't bleed." As she sat seriously wounded and propped up against the shelter wall, Elon stayed calm and tried to smile to reassure her children as they huddled waiting to be rescued. This horrifying experience has brought all of the children closer. "They used to always squabble about who would sleep together in which room and who would get a room of their own. After this, they all slept together in one room. None of them wanted to be alone."