MoD recognizes 1978 trauma victim
Incident involving discharged bullet, FBI agents during Camp David Accords has been haunting Israeli security guard for past 33 years
While statesmen negotiated the historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in Maryland in 1978, one behind-the-scenes incident was engraved in the brain of an Israeli security guard who is still trying to cope with the trauma.
A discharged bullet which alerted the American secret service has been haunting him for more than three decades.
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"Twenty FBI men stormed the room with cocked guns. I was afraid they were going to kill me," the security guard recalls. "Don't shoot," he yelled in English.
The ex-guard recently filed a request to be recognized as shell-shocked with the Defense Ministry. "There was great panic. They pointed 20 barrels of all sorts of weapons at me. I was in total shock but my shouting saved my life."
The Israeli guard was also shot in the helmet while chasing escaping inmates in the late 1970s. On another instance, a terrorist held him at gun point.
But he claims that the Camp David incident is the one that's been haunting him for the past 33 years.
In his dreams, he sees the FBI's pointing guns. In his statement he explained that a shooting instructor who was in the room with him had accidentally discharged a bullet.
Several years ago, he was diagnosed as suffering from post traumatic stress disorder which has seriously affected his life.
The Defense Ministry has now recognized him as shell-shocked and he is slated to receive compensation fees.
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