JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was able to intervene Tuesday to stop a young man from committing suicide.
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The man, from a town in northern Israel, had threatened to take his own life and a police negotiation team was called to the scene to deal with the situation.
Channel 12 News reported that the young man demanded to speak with a representative of the army or he would carry out his threat and commit suicide. One of the police officers disguised himself as a representative of the IDF, but the threatener was not convinced. He dangled himself in the air at a great height and demanded to be allowed to talk to the Defense Minister.
The police contacted Minister Gallant, and even though he was in the middle of security consultations, he immediately stopped the meeting so that he could assist the police in resolving the situation.
The minister talked calmly with the young man for several minutes and tried to persuade him to reconsider his decision. At the end of the conversation, the man was convinced to return to his home and not to follow through on his threats, thus ending a two-hour saga involving police and rescue authorities.
In spite of all the comments by other posters, Minister Gallant just earned himself a place in the Olam Ha’Elyon. I wish that the same could be said about them.
Jews must and hopefully do value every life as sacred. Me k amcha Yisroel!
Save one life save the world. I think I heard that somewhere
רפואה שלמה לחולי הנפש
Hopefully the man will get excellent treatment and have a refua shleima
very nice of Gallant.
“Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant …”
The headline should also have “Israeli” at the beginning of the headline.
Howard Stern did something like this decades ago — on the air!
another meshugana