Yovel Lewkowski starred on Net

This August, Yovel Lewkowski will mark 10 years since the night her life nearly ended. She was 18, visiting London with her grandfather shortly before beginning her military service, when they were caught in a stabbing attack on their way back to their hotel. An American tourist standing nearby was killed, while Lewkowski was wounded in the hand after instinctively raising it to defend herself. The attacker, a Muslim man of Somali origin, was subdued and arrested. A court later ruled that he had acted during a psychotic episode. It was a terrifying experience, but Lewkowski, now 28, chooses to focus on what it gave her. “I understood that life is short and unpredictable, and that everything can end at any moment,” she says.