He heard it from a man who learns in his kollel, who heard it from his wife who works as a nurse in a maternity ward, who heard it from the yoledet herself.
(A yoledet is a woman who is giving birth or has recently given birth.)
A Pass-Over Miracle on Simchat Torah
This kibbutz lacked any kind of Shabbat atmosphere.
Yet two years ago, this kibbutz woman (the yoledet) decided to keep Shabbat.
Her husband was less into it, but he went along with it. She was fully shomeret Shabbat. Yet it proved difficult and less pleasant to keep Shabbat in such an atmosphere, especially as their family grew, with several young children.
So she got her husband to agree to spend every Shabbat with different extended shomer Shabbat family members in different areas.
In short, this family never stayed home on Shabbat.
Yet this year, for Shabbat-Simchat Torah, they remained home. She was close to her due date, which made traveling difficult, and so it felt more comfortable to spend Shabbat at home.
However, they hosted a couple for that Shabbat-Simchat Torah.
Shabbat-Simchat Torah morning, they heard sirens, shooting, and Arabic voices.
They closed themselves in the home or safe room and via cracks in the shutters, they watched as the terrorists attacked systematically, going from house to house.
(Just to understand better: Unlike much of the rest of the country, the homes in these kibbutzim were not made of the stone and metal from which many Israeli buildings are built. This makes it easier to burn and breach them.)
Puzzlingly, as the terrorists made their way from house to house, the terrorists skipped this particular home, not even attempting to break in.
The entire family, including the guests, were saved.
But they remained with a big question mark: Why did the terrorists pass over their home?
God Protects Us – Including from the Traitor Within
As one Leftist kibbutz woman said, "I can't believe it. I gave this man toys for his children, sweets and candies — you have no idea how much I spoiled him because I felt so trusting and clung to the ideology of love among the nations...I also concerned myself with the Gazan children."
While employed at the kibbutz, these terrorists-in-progress collected information about the kibbutzim, creating detailed lists like "In this-and-such house, there are 4 children and a dog," etc., and plotting who to kill and who to take captive.
When investigators found the lists for this kibbutzim, they saw the same breakdown of individual details as appeared on every terrorist list — with one difference.
Regarding this family's home, the terrorists wrote: They're never home on Shabbat.
So believing there was no point in breaking into their home to murder or kidnap, the terrorists simply skipped over their home, never realizing this one Shabbat, the family remained at home.
Ki Ashmera Shabbat, Kel Yishmareni
The point is the family was shomer Shabbat (however reluctant the husband personally felt). They spent Shabbat away from home in order to ENHANCE Shabbat, and not out of laziness or materialism.
And that dedication to Shabbat saved them.