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Monica Biboso and her employer, Ester Rot, while celebrating Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) in the dining room of Kibbutz Be'eri in 2022. “I don’t feel like a hero because I saved Ester” during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Biboso told CNA. “I would do anything to save her. I just treated her like my mother. Every child would do the same.”

‘Without God, I wouldn’t be here’: Catholic woman recounts survival of Oct. 7 Hamas attack

Oct 7, 2024

By Marinella Bandini

In a conversation with CNA, Monica Biboso recalled that day she and the elderly woman she cared for survived when... Read more

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Monica Biboso and her employer, Ester Rot, while celebrating Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) in the dining room of Kibbutz Be'eri in 2022. “I don’t feel like a hero because I saved Ester” during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Biboso told CNA. “I would do anything to save her. I just treated her like my mother. Every child would do the same.”

‘Without God, I wouldn’t be here’: Catholic woman recounts survival of Oct. 7 Hamas attack

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