Rabbi Leo Dee tells visiting Netanyahu: ‘I don’t regret coming to Israel one moment’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Dee family in Efrat as they sit shiva for their wife and mother, Lucy Dee, and their sisters and daughters, Rina and Maia, who were all killed in a terror attack.

Rabbi Leo Dee tells Netanyahu that someone visiting the shiva house said: “‘I can’t imagine what it’s like to lose half your family,’ and I said, ‘Wait, it’s not half my family, we were seven and now it’s four,'” he says, stressing that his family is still strong.

“We’re here, we’re going to move forward, we’ll remember them forever, but we’re resolute,” Dee adds, noting that “I don’t regret coming to Israel one moment,” and that his late wife, Lucy, “would say the same thing.”

Netanyahu, who lost his older brother, Yoni, in an IDF operation in Entebbe in 1976, tells the Dee family that the pain of loss “probably will fade over time, and the memory will always be, that until your last days, that memory will be with you, and they will live inside you.”