Understandably, they all tried to get as far away as they could from the entrance, but only the soldier Anner Shapira, grandson of 2 former MK’s from the Mizrachi (religious-Zionist party) and a graduate of Bnei Akiva, a yeshiva high-school and Mechina, said “Hineni” and stood at the shelter’s entrance and caught and threw-back 8 (!) hand-grenades (until a RPG was fired inside, reaching the crowded back of the shelter)
It’s definitely worth pointing out that the Slutkys, Kalmansons and Shapira are products of religious-Zionist education. In secular education, the iconic Akeidat Yitzchak is sometimes skipped or portrayed as an “outdated” or even “embarrassing” incident (although the extreme leftist Res. General Yair Golan and others did go down in uniform to save many lives on that fateful Oct. 7th, but proportionately it wasn’t wide-spread). In Haredi schools the Akeida’s taught as a singular greatness of our forefathers, and accordingly, I didn’t hear of any Haredi who himself went down to risk his life and fight on that fateful Simchat Torah (only to collect bodies afterwards), for such wide-spread and national mesirut nefesh to save Am Yisrael is not part of their agenda, just as accordingly, guns are not found in their “toolbox”. Only where “Hineni” is taught as a pragmatic lesson to this day, do the practical ramifications speak for themselves.