Rita Abramova, 17. A metal ball punctured her lung and descended into her diaphragm. She could not breathe. They pumped blood out of her lung. She might still have a surgery to have the ball extracted. Triple arm fracture. She has a steel rod in her broken leg, from her hip to her knee.

I want to address every mother who lives abroad and doesn’t know what’s going on here. What if her children went out one night and said, Mom, don’t worry, I won’t be long — and never came back? If she had to look for her children in hospitals and morgues and identify their bodies — and not even bodies, but body parts? What if they went through this terror? Maybe then she would realize what tragedy it is and what is really going on here.

Mr. Cherney helped Rita Abramova while she was still in the hospital after the attack. In Eilat, she was already dancing.