Bedouin who helped rescue lone runner on Oct. 7 is now an Israel Police officer

(JNS) - OFAKIM, Israel-Hidden among the bushes in a southern Israel grove, a young Bedouin busboy and a resident from Kibbutz Be'eri lay quietly for seven hours, afraid to speak as they hid for their lives.

They had fled the Hamas-led massacre at the hard-hit kibbutz, less than three miles from Gaza, on Oct. 7, 2023, and were sheltering from terrorists in the thicket as rockets, bullets and explosions whizzed above their heads.

Two years later, Hisham Alkarnawi - the Muslim worker from the once-nomadic Bedouin minority who helped save the woman he had never met before - has become an Israel Po...