How name dropping Lionel Messi saved an Israeli grandmother.

90-year-old Esther Cunio, a grandmother in southern Israel, survived a Hamas attack by telling her masked Palestinian gunmen intruders she was from Argentina, where soccer star Lionel Messi is from. The intruders asked about her family, and Cunio, who was born in Argentina, steered the conversation to soccer, ultimately connecting with the intruders over their shared love for Messi.

March 21, 2024
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