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"Hamas terrorists disguised as IDF soldiers are knocking on doors. Please do not open." “My 18-year-old daughter Tchelet was killed on a Saturday morning during the holiday of Simchat Torah,” Gladys Fishbein told JNS. On Oct. 7, Fishbein was tending to her ill 94-year-old mother, Sarah, at Kibbutz Be’eri when Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, killing 1,200 people, including Tchelet (Celeste) and her boyfriend. Tchelet, who along with her mother lived on the kibbutz, had recently started working in a kindergarten there, taking care of toddlers. “Our family arrived from Brazil 52 years ago. My parents were true Zionists,” Fishbein related. “When we first arrived at Be’eri, it wasn’t a big community. We worked very hard to build it. “Tchelet had just graduated from high school, she did not know yet what she wanted to do with her life. But she did want to be close to her grandmother in the kibbutz where she spent most of her childhood,” added Fishbein. A month after starting at the kindergarten, Tchelet met Dor Rieder, 23, who became her partner. “I did not know Dor but from euloGies at both of their funerals, I can tell you that those two were soulmates,” said Fishbein. Gladys Fishbein had intended to start a new life in Beersheva on Oct. 8. Instead, she found herself trapped in the safe room of her mother’s home, along with her mother’s caretaker, her son Liel, who was visiting for the holiday, and their two dogs. “Living on the border, we are used to missile attacks. When the sirens sounded at 6:30 a.m., my mother refused to go into the shelter and went outside to get some air. We did not know how serious the situation was at the time,” recounted Fishbein. That morning: Tchelet forwarded a message to the family on Beeri’s WhatsApp group, saying: “Residents of the surrounding area: Hamas terrorists disguised as IDF soldiers are knocking on doors. Please do not open. Protect your lives. Share.” “She worried about us more than she did for herself,” Fishbein told JNS. “Then, we started to hear voices in Arabic, shootings and bombings, while the sirens persisted.” At 11:23, Fishbein connected to her daughter by phone for the last time. Source: Amelie Botbol