Keren and Tali Dee, who lost their sisters, Rina and Maia, and mother, Lucy, in the murderous terror attack in the Jordan Valley, can not digest the tragedy that befell them a little over a week ago.
In an interview with Channel 13, Keren said: “Suddenly, it dawned upon me that it is us and that Mom was injured, and I don’t know what happened to my two sisters. I began to scream and cry. I screamed, ‘What’s going on with my sisters?’ and then I called my father, and he just told me ‘Baruch Dayan Haemet’ (the traditional saying after someone is deceased), and that’s it”.
Tali Dee recalled: “My father, I don’t know how he did it, but he drove the whole way. He told me to call my grandparents in England to tell them. And then I said, ‘OK, listen for a moment, be quiet,’ and then I said, ‘Maia and Rina were just murdered, and Mom is in a severe condition.’
We aren’t internalizing it, we don’t understand. Looking back, to call my grandparents to tell them such news, I don’t know where I got the strength.”

Tali shared: “I always said that I want to give them one last hug, they told us that it isn’t respectful and it’s not the right thing to do, so we had to hug them over a sheet. That last hug will never sink in, it’s unfathomable that that was the last time, and from now on, we will go to visit them in a grave.
It still hasn’t sunk in that I was with them that day, that I lived with them, and that I was always with them, I just can’t internalize that I won’t see them again.
The full interview (in Hebrew):