In early 2020, I stood in a warehouse in Jerusalem, surrounded by cribs, strollers, diapers . . . just about everything you would need for a baby. Nir Salomon was giving a group of us Americans — Catholic journalists, activists, academics, intellectuals — a tour of Efrat, Israel’s pregnancy care center. Essentially, the super-practical pro-life movement in Israel. As Salomon says in an interview with me today, abortion is basically legal in Israel, but Efrat exists to make sure women have the option to be the mothers they already are when they discover they are pregnant.
Nir has some beautiful, and difficult, stories. He talks about how Efrat has stepped up to the plate to serve women and men and babies in unexpected ways since the October 7 attacks. He talks about the new outpost they are opening in the Miami area. He also talks beautifully about the doctors who saved the life of Tzeela Gez’s baby, as she was lethally wounded by a terrorist last night.
