The Girl from Scorpions Pass: Surviving a Desert Massacre Was Just the Beginning (Paperback)
Five-year-old Miri is left for dead in a brutal terror attack that kills her parents
On a desert night a little girl lies shivering under a dead body near a bullet riddled bus too frightened to cry. The violated body of her mother is strewn nearby. Her father, the bus driver, sits slumped over the wheel; his blood has mingled with that of twelve dead passengers. She cannot see her older brother.
Rescued by soldiers hours later, the horror of that night remains locked in her heart.
Miri Furstenberg was born in Tel Aviv in 1948 just as the State of Israel achieved independence. Her story begins when a soldier shields her from terrorists with his dying body and tells her to stay quiet or be killed. She was five years old. Her parents and older brother were among the victims. She obeyed the soldier's order to keep quiet for fifty years before speaking out about what happened that day at Scorpions Pass. Miri Furstenberg lives in Israel and is a regular speaker on the topic of terrorism, its victims and survivors guilt. This book was originally published in Hebrew in 2016.