Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (Sunday) arrived at the home of the Dee family in Efrat to pay a condolence visit following murder of Lucy Dee and her daughters Maia and Rina in a terrorist shooting attack in the Jordan Valley over the Passover holiday.
The Prime Minister heard from the husband and father of the victims, Rabbi Leo Dee, the story of their aliyah to Israel from Britain. Rabbi Dee said that he knows that if he could ask his wife whether she regretted moving to Israel given her murder, she would say that she would have still made aliyah.
"The land of Israel was acquired through suffering," Netanyahu told the grieving family. "Now your wife and daughters will live inside you."
Tally Dee, the youngest daughter of the Dee family, asked Netanyahu how he coped after the death of his older brother Yoni in 1976. The Prime Minister replied that at first he thought life was over, and when he was told during the seven days of shiva that there is life after such a loss, he could not believe it, but in the end those who told him that were right. Netanyahu added that the pain the family now feels will be with them for the rest of their lives, but it will not always be as acute as it is now.
Netanyahu was accompanied in his visit by Cabinet Secretaries Tzachi Braverman and Yossi Fox, and by Military Secretary Avi Gil.