It’s a long story.  I know Shoshy from her connection to some research I was doing that is being continued with Shoshy’s help by my graduate student.  That’s a very intellectual connection.  

But she owns a gas station at Binyamina Junction, a gas station founded by her great-grandfather.  Ezi says there was a restaurant owned by her great- grandmother that his family used to visit on the way home from Naharia.  

Anyway one night last week her son called her up from the cash register he was managing and told her there was a violent mob looking for the Arab workers.  She got dressed and ran down to the station and got the 2 Arabs who worked there hidden.   Four hours.  With the police trying to keep the crowd from beating up the passers-by who looked Arab.  She sent her son inside and stood outside to protect them all.  You can read about it in Haaretz if you have a subscription.

If you don’t, just know this incident took place near Bibi’s home in Caesarea.