Nasrin Yosef of Moshav Yadad, who became famous after she said that she saved an entire settlement when she and her husband interrogated three terrorists they caught outside their home on October 7, gave up lighting the beacon on Independence Day due to threats on her life.
Minister Miri Regev said that she was sorry to hear about the decision. “The minister respects her decision and this is to prevent Nasreen from further pain beyond what her soul suffered on October 7. Minister Regev is proud and congratulates Nasreen and Iyad Yosef for risking their lives to save other citizens.”
Yosef’s message to the committee described the events of October 7 in the Yad settlement, and the reasons why she would not raise a torch: “Nasrin, who showed extraordinary courage when her husband Ayad left his family members and a member of the Yad settlement’s standby class on his own initiative… His commander asked him not to leave, and Ayad answered him: I’d rather die in an IDF uniform than as a mouse in the MMD.
“Nasreen remembered that her neighbor was alone with her daughters and went to get them so that he could stay with her in the MMD at her home.
“At the same time, the alert squad and Moshav Yadad police caught the first terrorists, handcuffed them and brought them near Nasreen and Iyad’s house. One of the terrorists’ phone rang and Nasreen was asked to be the interpreter. This information helped the alert squad find more terrorists.
“The next day Tchai (local emergency team) evacuated Moshav Yad and the Yosef family evacuated to the north and from there to Eilat.
“During the stay of the Yosef family in Eilat… Arabs who recognized her began to threaten her and even attacked her and tore the Star of David necklace from her neck. For this reason and in addition to other threats, Nasrin decided with great pain to withdraw her candidacy from this honorable position, so that her soul would not be harmed beyond what was harmed by the events of 7 in October, thus also protecting her family members.
“Nasreen and Iyad thank from the bottom of their hearts for the honor given to them to raise a torch and stand where heroes and great intellectuals stood.”
