The expression “Man’s Best Friend” was never truer for at least one Israeli man when his dog, who was sitting next to him while driving along the Husan Bypass Road in Judea.
One minute the car was moving peacefully along the road, and the next minute, the car came under a stoning attack and the driver heard his dog begin to cry — a lot. He looked over and saw that he was badly wounded.
The driver, a resident of a moshav located next to Beit Shemesh, told the Hebrew-language 0404 website, “There is no doubt at all that my dog saved my life. If that rock had hit me in the head, I wouldn’t be here with you today.
The window of the car had been open at the time, he explained. The rock slammed directly into the dog’s throat, since the dog was blocking the driver.
“He was hurt badly, he really cried so much, and I raced to take him to a veterinarian as fast as I could,” the driver said.
“Recently I haven’t been traveling back and forth on the ‘dangerous’ road simply because I fear for my life,” he added bluntly.
“I can’t understand why no one is doing anything about it. It seems that no one cans about the lives of a few civilians here. That’s the head of our leadership. All talk.”
Stoning attacks have become daily events on the highway, which locals now refer to as “Terror Road.” The Husan bypass road is located just a few minutes south of the checkpoint that leads to the southern entrance to the Jerusalem Tunnels Road near the Gilo neighborhood.