Miracle Recovery of Terror Rocket Victim

A 20-year-old woman who was barely holding on to her life after Saturday night’s rocket attack now is breathing on her own, adding another miracle in the wake of Arab terrorist attacks on Israel.

The woman regained consciousness while being treated at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, where the missile exploded, killing 38-year-old Yossi Shushan.

Besides the unidentified woman, four others still are in the hospital, and their medical status has been improved to light and moderate.

Shushan was not granted a miracle and died from a direct missile hit as he raced to a house where his pregnant wife was staying, but other miracles were noted by Rabbi Avraham Cohen, the first Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who was sent to Be’er Sheva some 35 years ago.

“The fact that I am standing here, that my family is alive, is an open miracle,” Rabbi Cohen told Arutz Sheva. However, that was not to say that his family was not terrified by the blast.

Even without a public bomb shelter, said neighbors, Saturday evening’s missile attack brought with it many miracles, although it came with a tragic murder and other wounded people elsewhere in the city.

Mazal and Meir Damri’s yard usually is packed with guests on Sabbath afternoon, but “coincidentally” they were not home when the rocket struck because the Damri family was visiting Meir, who was told by the doctors he could not be released following his heart attack the previous Tuesday.

“So many miracles,” Mazal Damri murmured as she indicated each wound gouged into her walls by the flying shrapnel.

Terrorists still are attacking Israel, with two mortar shells exploding at a Gaza Belt community Wednesday morning. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu resumed further discussions with the Security Cabinet to decide what actions, if any, to take against the continuing terror.