Hussam Moadi, from the Druze village of Yarka, is a 26-year-old tractor driver. On October 19, he was at work near Shtula, a moshav neighboring the Lebanese border, and a group of Israeli soldiers was walking nearby. Suddenly, Hezbollah began shooting anti-tank missiles in their direction. Moadi, who had served as a combat soldier, hurried to save the soldiers. He leaped from the tractor, warning them about the attack, and threw himself in their way to prevent them from approaching closer to the border. As Moadi had guessed, the Hezbollah terrorists had aimed another anti-tank missile in advance at the soldiers’ path forward. Thanks to Moadi’s quick and well-chosen reaction, the soldiers did not continue into the trap, and they were saved. Moadi himself was wounded by shrapnel in his arm and eye.
Thus Moadi demonstrated skilled thinking and courage in the face of a heavily armed enemy, shielding the soldiers with his own body.
