Yael Shevach, the wife of Rabbi Raziel Shevach, who was murdered in a shooting attack near his home in Judea and Samaria on Jan. 9, penned a stirring message and poem on Monday to Miriam Ben-Gal, whose husband, Itamar, was stabbed to death by a terrorist on Monday.
"I never thought I'd feel a sister was born to me," she wrote on Facebook. "Miriam, I'm hugging you, love. We will get through this. Together. Alone."
In a poignant twist of fate, the two widows are also bonded by the fact that their husbands knew each other through a mutual friend.
That mutual friend, Aviad Sharara, shared a group photo on Monday of Ben-Gal and Shevach together, smiling at Sharara's birthday celebration a year ago.
The following is the poem written by Yael Shevach to Miriam Ben-Gal:
