Tel Aviv: Good Guy with Gun, in Flip-flops, Shoots Terrorist

Lev Kreitman heard Tuesday’s terror attack in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, stepped outside and shot one of the two Palestinian terrorists who had shot and killed six in a terror attack.

Breitbart News reported that the two terrorists opened fire on civilians along Jerusalem Boulevard in the city of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv in an apparent terror attack, killing six and wounding several other people.

The dead were all civilians; one of the wounded was a female Israeli soldier, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Forward noted that Kreitman “was sitting nearby having a drink when he heard gunfire,” wearing flip-flops, when he ran outside to confront the terrorists who had opened fire on commuters on the light rail nearby.

Kreitman is a reserve Israeli solider and, as such, had a personal handgun on him. Video appears to show him squaring up toward the terrorists and firing two rounds, at least one of which found its mark.

In addition to being a reservist, Kreitman is the CEO of Midburn, “Israel’s local version of the Burning Man festival.”

In a futher irony, Kreitman had survived the Hamas terror attack at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on October 7, where terrorists murdered over 400 people and took dozens of hostages. The Times of Israel noted that he had helped save wounded people during that terror attack.

BBC noted that “Police said the gunman and another attacker armed with a knife were ‘neutralised’ by members of the public, and described the motive as ‘terror.'”

The terror attack occurred shortly before the Iranians launched a missile attack against Israel.

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