Israeli man ‘saved’ by a terror attack

Daniel Cohen, 31, was wounded in a stabbing attack in Rishon Lezion last week. What doctors found out when they operated on him in the hospital, however, was that he was suffering from a potentially life-threatening intestinal tumor.

“I was in the middle of a work day,” Cohen tells Radio Kol Chai. “I was in the central bus station, waiting for a line that was supposed to take me to the next place to be checked,” he says. Cohen is a Kashrut supervisor. “I waited for the bus and did not see anything suspicious. Then I walked a few steps and suddenly the attacker lunged at me and strangled me.”

“When Magen David Adom paramedics arrived I was still conscious but when I got to Assaf Harofeh Hospital they put me under,” he says.

“As they were operating on me, they found a growth on my intestine that I didn’t know I had and cut it out. If they wouldn’t remove it, it could have gotten worse,” he says.