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(A7) Rabbi Leo Dee shared details of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s condolence call with the Dee family Sunday, revealing his family’s conversation with the prime minister.
Netanyahu, accompanied by military secretary Avi Gil and cabinet secretaries Tzachi Braverman and Yossi Fox, visited the Dee family in Efrat Sunday, following the April 7th terror attack in the Jordan Valley that claimed the lives of Lucy (Leah) Dee and her daughters, Maia and Rina.
Speaking with reporters after the meeting, the bereaved husband and father, Rabbi Leo Dee, said that the prime minister described his own grieving process after his older brother Yonatan was killed during the Entebbe Operation in 1976.
“It was a great comfort to see Bibi [Netanyahu]. He talked about the mourning that he did for his brother and the feelings that you go through. A lot of the time that we spent with him was discussing that, and I think it was a great comfort to the kids and myself in explaining the feelings that we might experience.”
“There is so much good in this country in so many aspects, I don’t know why we have to focus on the things that pull us apart, because we can focus on so many things that different segments of the population are achieving.”
Regarding the terrorists who perpetrated the deadly attack, Rabbi Dee said: “I obviously would like them to be captured and to be treated with full justice that they deserve, but mostly to stop them from doing anything like this every again.”
“Nothing is going to bring back our beloved Lucy and Maia and Rina. My focus is very much on the future, for us and for Am Yisrael – and not to focus on a couple of people who come from a damaged culture and have no future.”
Rabbi Dee said that he had received messages of support and condolences from some of his Arab friends following the terror attack.
“I have had some Palestinian friends of mine from the neighboring villages who have left messages in tears because I’ve known them for many years. They’ve known Lucy, they’ve known the girls.”
“They are workers…builders and gardeners who have helped me in the home in many ways. We’ve spent a lot of time together…I would spend the day working from home, and they came, chatting, having coffee together, talking about their kids, talking about our kids. We trusted them, I trusted them completely with the family. I still do, more so than many people that I still know.”
“One of them said recently: ‘We love you,’ and I said, ‘We love you too,’ in tears.”
