Regardless of technology, are Israeli soldiers really that good?

Noam Tibon, 62, a retired IDF major general living in Tel Aviv, answered a call from his son on Saturday morning, 7 October.

The son spoke in a whisper. He said that his wife, he, and their 2 daughters (3 and 1.5 years old) are hiding underground in a shelter, they locked themselves in, and their house is seized by Hamas. The son and his family lived in a kibbutz right on the border with Gaza…

What would an American general do if this happened in Texas? Or a German general?

The Israeli general jumped into his jeep. He tried but couldn’t fight off his wife, so she, too, got into the jeep with him.

The general rushed south to save his son’s family. On the way, they saw several military servicemen. Together with them, they arrived to the kibbutz, captured by Hamas.

The Israeli general took command of the soldiers who happened to be at his disposal and they started clearing the kibbutz from Hamas militants, house by house.

They managed to liberate the whole kibbutz — and the General saved his son’s family!

The little girls behaved heroically, too: they were lying quietly in the dark shelter for 10 hours before they were rescued.

When the General knocked on the wall of his son’s bomb shelter, he simply said, “I am here.”

That’s Israeli soldiers.