David Wallach and his family were in Tel Aviv, Israel on a family vacation when the trouble began.

Wallach, his wife and his daughter were in a Tel Aviv hotel when they were woken up by the sound of sirens and explosions on October 7. Initially, they didn’t know what was happening until they went out to eat breakfast and a siren forced Wallach and his wife to the closest bomb shelter.

When the family got back to the hotel, it dawned on them it was not safe to stay outdoors and that instantly changed their plans to go back to Canada. They originally planned to leave Israel on October 27.

While talking to Global News, Wallach said: “It’s horrific, terrible and barbaric that people are causing damage for no reason.

“One rocket destroyed two buildings two blocks from our hotel. It injured four people, one of them very severely. So we realized we had to leave Tel Aviv.”

The family immediately travelled up north to a small hamlet where his childhood friend resides and started volunteering to help Israelis affected by the conflict while also thinking about how to go back to Canada.

While talking further, Wallach said: “In Israel, everybody comes together. Everybody helps each other … So we raised money from friends in Canada and the U.S. and we went to buy products that people needed, whether it was soldiers or families that evacuated with the clothes on their back.”

The family returned to Canada on October 14.

He said: “We landed at 6 p.m. on Saturday, and it was 23 hours of travel. We flew from Haifa, Israel in a privately chartered commercial plane on Thursday to Cyprus … We flew Saturday from Lanarca, Cyprus to Athens to Rome, and then with WestJet from Rome directly to Calgary.

“It started as a family vacation but it ended up being an evacuation.”

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