The widow of the off-duty soldier who was stabbed to death in a supermarket last Thursday welcomes the army’s decision to have soldiers on leave take their rifles home.
But Yael Weissman says she does not blame the army for her husband’s death. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, was not armed during Thursday attack due to a directive that prohibits soldiers who are on leave for more that three days to take their guns with them. He had nonetheless requested permission to take his weapon and was turned down.
“We aren’t angry at the army, but we welcome the change in the policy of carrying weapons while off duty,” she tells Channel 2.
She says “thank God we have an army that” is “doing its job,” and “I trust them 100 percent.”
During the attack, the two — out shopping with their baby — were far away from the attackers, and her husband ran to help, she says.
“Yanai didn’t think twice,” she says. “When I lifted my head,” she adds, he was already gone.
Tuvia Yanai Weissman with his wife Yael and four-month-old daughter. Weissman was stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists at a West Bank supermarket on February 18, 2016. (Facebook)
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