Three-year-old Yedidya Rotelvi, who was blown from a fourth-floor apartment in Arad during a missile blast and trapped beneath rubble, was released from Soroka Medical Center on Tuesday in what his family described as a clear miracle.

The child, a member of the Gur chassidic community in Arad, had recently celebrated his third birthday milestone. At the time of the strike, the force of the explosion hurled him from the window, leaving him buried under debris. When his family later located him in the hospital, he told them, “I didn’t get hurt at all, and suddenly people came and took me in an ambulance.”

In a dramatic interview on a hotline broadcast hosted by Itche Dzhilavsky, the full extent of the extraordinary rescue emerged. His father, Rabbi Tzvi Meir Rotelvi, whose fourth-floor apartment sustained a direct hit, and Kobi Shachar, an IDF-disabled veteran who pulled the boy from the wreckage, recounted the terrifying moments and what they described as unmistakable hashgacha pratis.

When the massive explosion was heard, the walls of the apartment simply collapsed. Rabbi Tzvi Meir rushed to the children’s room and found that two of his children had miraculously survived. Moments later, he realized that Yedidya’s bed was empty—the child had been carried down with the collapsing wall. Trapped inside the shattered apartment, the father described a powerful sense of faith that overtook him.

“What went through my mind was that the city of Arad was established by the Rebbe, the ‘Lev Simcha’ of Gur,” the father said. “I told myself: my child is now in his hands. Where exactly? I don’t know. But he is in his hands.”

At the same time, below the building amid the destruction, Kobi Shachar rushed into the scene. In the interview, he described hearing faint cries and discovering the child beneath a massive slab of concrete weighing over 100 kilograms that had stopped just inches from his head. Seconds later, another stone came crashing down from above, and Shachar instinctively pushed it away with his bare hand before pulling the boy out.

“He simply put his head on my shoulder and rested, completely exhausted,” Shachar recalled during the broadcast.

Later in the interview, the father expressed his gratitude to the rescuer, saying: “You were a messenger of the Creator of the world… a merit and a miracle beyond words.” Shachar responded emotionally: “The merit is mine. Behold, the Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.”

By the end of the interview, the father shared the most encouraging news: Despite the horrific fall and being buried under rubble, young Yedidya recovered at Soroka Medical Center and even began getting out of bed and walking on his own. In what the family described as a clear miracle during the month of miracles, he was discharged and returned home.

{Matzav.com}