TIMES OF ISRAEL
36 years later, an Israeli POW meets the Palestinian captor who saved him
by Staff
August 3, 2018

Thirty-six years after he fell prisoner during the first Lebanon war, Ephraim Talabi decided to track down one of his captors, a man he has never forgotten and who he says saved his sanity throughout the traumatic experience — through simple acts of kindness. Talabi was captured by a Palestinian cell during fighting in southern Lebanon, and was held for 10 days. Muhammad Amin a-Sati, a Fatah man who fought against the Israeli incursion in 1982, “treated me like a human being” during those dark days, Talabi recalled in a report aired Wednesday by Hadashot TV news. READ MORE