Singer Chagit Yaso Recounts Miracle Survival on October 7
Translated & summarized from Arutz Sheva by baba
Singer Chagit Yaso described her miraculous survival on October 7th in Sderot. While running on Shabbat, she took shelter from missile fire and narrowly avoided terrorists who killed a cyclist she had just met. She and 10 others were trapped for 40 minutes in a gas station office as terrorists attacked the building, but the glass door miraculously held. Yaso, who has since released a new album, views her survival as a divine intervention.
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- Singer Chagit Yaso survived October 7th by hiding in a gas station office as terrorists attacked.
- Terrorists killed a cyclist outside the gas station moments after Yaso narrowly avoided him.
- A glass door at the gas station miraculously withstood 40 minutes of terrorist assault.
- Yaso was listed as missing and dead before a worker confirmed she was alive.
- She attributes her survival to divine intervention and has released a new album on faith.
Israeli singer Chagit Yaso, 37, has shared her harrowing experience of surviving the October 7th Hamas attack, describing it as a "miracle." A resident of Sderot, Yaso was out for a run on Shabbat morning, having forgone her car due to religious observance. She found herself near a roadside shelter when a heavy missile barrage began. Fearing the missiles, she entered an open shelter, where she prayed and contemplated her life, ultimately making a spiritual commitment to wear longer running shorts.
As she left the shelter, she encountered a cyclist, Lior Weitzman, whom she asked for a ride. Seconds after he departed, Yaso heard heavy gunfire and, compelled by instinct, crossed the road to another shelter. She then witnessed terrorists in a pickup truck shoot and kill Weitzman. Had she not moved, she believes she would have been seen and targeted.
Yaso then hid in nearby bushes, observing terrorists arrive and shoot an unarmed civilian in a car. She followed the car to a gas station, where she alerted the staff and 11 people, including herself, were locked in an inner office by a worker named Masoud. For 40 minutes, terrorists outside pounded and shot at the glass door of the convenience store, which miraculously did not break. Yaso reported that she was listed among the missing and dead before Masoud contacted her mother to confirm she was alive.
The group was eventually rescued by a Kibbutz Gevim rapid response team. Yaso, who has since released a new album focused on faith and Shabbat, described the event as an "inexplicable miracle." She also spoke about her family's immigration from Ethiopia in 1980, her gradual return to religious observance, and her desire to marry and start a family, drawing strength from her survival.