Before my tragedy with my daughter … I never said that that they [the Israelis] are like friends. … But after my tragedy it is very easy for me to say that we are brothers. We are family. … We created a kind of trust. For some [of them] I consider that my daughter was [also] their daughter. … All of us [spent] three days in the hospital [together]. … So we created really very strong relations at the personal level. (Gawerc 2012)