Last year on Oct. 4, Rachel Miner had a flight planned to Israel. She was going to see her two friends Yael Admi and Reem Hajajreh. Admi and Hajajreh had jointly planned a march for peace — Admi is a leader in an Israeli women’s peace organization and Hajajareh is a leader in a Palestinian women’s peace organization.
Miner felt uneasy about making the trip. As the founder and CEO of Bellwether International, a group that responds to genocides with humanitarian aid, she said, “I’ve traveled to a lot of scary places. I work in genocide communities, but for whatever reason, my spiritual intuition was to not go.”
Three days later, Hamas attacked Israel, killing more than a thousand Israelis, including women and children. Miner was supposed to stay at her friend Vivian Silver’s home. Silver was abducted by Hamas and later confirmed dead…