Transcript [00:00] October 7 in the morning, I'm getting a [00:02] phone call from my sister. She was in [00:05] Kibutz Arez Kibutz Arez in the south [00:08] just near Gaza. She's telling me, "Le, [00:11] I'm in the shelter with knives. Please [00:13] come and save me." And I didn't know [00:15] what to do because I didn't know what [00:16] happening. I was just I was just waking [00:18] up and I and I was watching the TV and I [00:20] was watching the the news on my phone [00:22] and I realized what's happening there in [00:24] Israel and I couldn't help her. and she [00:26] was there with her son and she was [00:28] holding a knife waiting for the [00:30] terrorist to come to the shelter. I was [00:32] like a lion in a cage and then knock on [00:35] the door and someone tells me listen 150 [00:37] people waiting for you you have to do [00:38] their your speech. So oh and the guy who [00:41] was to supposed to interview me was the [00:43] son of the adviser of Yaserat. So I [00:46] asked him I asked him not to come and [00:49] and actually what I did I took my phone [00:51] and I connected it to the screen and I [00:54] didn't speak I just showed them what's [00:55] going on in Israel. I went you know [00:57] Israel is the only country in the world [00:59] when there is a war people instead of [01:01] running away from the country. Everyone [01:03] wants to get into the country. So I [01:05] didn't have a flight because all the [01:07] soldiers all the volunteers we all just [01:09] wanted to go back to Israel to help and [01:11] to save our country. I called Al went [01:13] back to Israel in the night of October 7 [01:16] in the morning. I didn't know what to do [01:18] because I felt that I I I have to do [01:21] something because you see that there is [01:23] still terrorists in the terrorist in the [01:25] south. Nobody knew what's going on. So I [01:28] took my car, I took my gun and I went to [01:31] the south. I told my wife that I'm going [01:33] to a friend of mine. So I went to the [01:35] south. There was there like a [01:37] headquarter of of people that calling [01:40] aim. They asked who have a gun, who have [01:43] a jeep? And I said, I have. And I said, [01:44] guys, we need to rescue some families in [01:47] the road. They're surrounded by [01:48] terrorists. The missiles are coming down [01:49] on them. They don't have electricity. [01:52] The night is coming. Please go and and [01:54] just take them. They gave me the [01:56] addresses. First time I went, there was [01:58] a family of blind people that didn't [02:01] know what to do. And I just uh took them [02:03] from it was it was dawn. was before [02:06] night. But I did nothing compared to the [02:09] people and the soldiers that was [02:10] fighting there for so long. For me, it [02:12] was like two days of fighting. For them, [02:15] it was like 200 days or more. more than [02:17] 200. There's two years of fighting.
Fauda co-creator and star Lior Raz has spent years portraying Israel’s fight against terrorism on screen. On October 7, that fight became personal.
While his own family sheltered from Hamas, Lior headed south to help evacuate Israelis caught in the attacks.
Hear his story. 🇮🇱 #short
