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This is a true hero. Ravit Assayag, 19 years old. She saved the village of Yakini. She was in NYC the night before and as soon she got off the plane in Israel, the news was hitting and she went straight into battle off the flight. She was killed fighting. Commander Baruch Honig told people at her funeral: “Ravit insisted on going in first. She was killed but she saved the unit, she saved the operation. 'We were in an olive grove and had been fighting for several hours. We shot eight of them. Ravit killed three. We thought they were all dead. We did a sweep of the area and Ravit went to check a shed in the olive grove. 'She insisted on going in first. She asked me to cover her. She was shot. But if she had not gone in there, he would have wiped us all out. She saved the unit.' Just 72 hours earlier Ravit posed for a picture in NYC where she was celebrating the Jewish festival of Sukkot - also known as the Feast of the Tabernacle - with her father Shimon. Every year the pair would travel to the USA to sell the ritual fruits known as 'etrog' - called citron in English - to members of New York's Jewish community.” The strength of Israeli women is just incredible May her memory be a blessing 🕯️