Hang up the phone and play dead

“Hang up the phone and play dead.” This harrowing advice from Yuval Raphael’s father saved her life on Oct. 7, 2023, and brought her to the spotlight in Basel, Switzerland as Israel’s representative to Eurovision this week.

Most Americans have never heard of Eurovision, and surely not 24-year-old Yuval Raphael.

On Oct. 7, 2023, Yuval was at the Nova music festival in southern Israel along the Gaza border, located in a wooded area with an adjacent lot on which a stage had been set up for all night music and dancing. Thousands of young people camped out all night.

At 6:30 in the morning, when Ha...