A Hero of Israel

"The woman in the photo is named Inbal Liberman. When it's all over, this woman will receive the Israel Prize. The story of her heroism is a story that will enter Israeli myth for generations. Inbal is the reason that there is one kibbutz in the entire surrounding area that remains unharmed -- Nir Am."

"Liberman, a daughter of the kibbutz, was the first in the entire State of Israel to understand what was happening."

"She ran like mad from house to house, organized the emergency squad and prepared a work plan to protect the kibbutz and placed men in ambushes on the kibbutz's fence."

"All the terrorists who came to the kibbutz were killed at the fence: 25 terrorists."

"A hero of Israel."

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INBAL RABIN-LIBERMAN.

(photo credit: COURTESY OF THE FAMILY)

Inbal Liberman, 25, served as military security coordinator of Kibbutz Nir Am, appointed in December of 2022. Early Saturday morning, she heard explosions and quickly understood those explosions  were not the same as the sound of the rocket attacks she was accustomed to hearing. She spared no time in further introspection, convinced that something unusual was underway. And because she did, her swiftly-devised scheme of self-defence succeeded in saving the lives of the members of her kibbutz.

 

Hers alone among the attacked kibbutzes, suffered no casualties. Her kibbutz's swift reaction and preparation for self-defence led to the deaths of all the terrorists whose assumption was that theirs would be a day of glorious conquest when they could boast of having massacred Jews in their beds, families in their homes, taken vulnerable children as hostages, burning others in a gruesome orgy of savage barbarism, as occurred in other kibbutzim nearby.

 

Inbal Liberman rushed to open her kibbutz's armory, distributing weapons to her twelve-man security team comprised of other kibbutz members. She then placed them along the kibbutz fence, located a mere stone's throw from the Gaza border. And just in time ambushes were set up for the swiftly-impending arrival of the terrorists they knew were en route. 

And when the aspiring killers-of-Jews arrived in the expectation that they would encounter no resistance by surprised and unprepared kibbutz residents, still drowsy from sleep as dawn was breaking, the kibbutz guards launched their own surprise greeting. The security team themselves gunned down twenty of the terrorists, the Hamas terrorists encountering a wall of gunfire that they had intended as a gift for the Israelis. Inbal herself is credited with having dispatched five of them, herself.

One of the security team explained that Liberman had been instructed by the Israel Defense Forces only to remain on standby. According to Sa'ar Paz of the security team, she took her own initiative in  unsurpassed self-agency decision-making to send her team to various sectors of the kibbutz protective fence with the aim of protecting the kibbutz through her meticulously planned defence scheme.

 Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images

 

"I'm not a hero."

"I'm still digesting everything that I'm going through, which is why I'm not telling the real story yet. I promise you will hear from me."

"There are so many people on the ground, still fighting for their lives, and there are still many who fought beside me and around me."

Inbal Liberman