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‘She Saved My Life’: Jewish Lawyer Describes Wife’s Last Few Moments Before She Was Killed by Texas Floods

A drone view shows the Guadalupe River and damage from flooding near Camp Mystic, in Hunt, Texas, U.S. July 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Evan Garcia
A Jewish couple who struggled to escape the deadly floods in Central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend did not survive together and on Tuesday, the husband, a well-known criminal defense attorney in Houston, recounted in a Facebook post his last few moments with this wife before she was killed in the flooding.
Randy and Mollie Schaffer were at their 46th annual reunion with law school friends at the River Inn Resort & Conference Center, located on the edge of the Guadalupe River in Hunt, when the flood started. When the couple went to sleep for the night on Thursday, the weather outside their hotel “was fine,” Randy wrote on Facebook. At 3 a.m. on Friday morning, a hotel manager knocked on their door and told them they needed to evacuate immediately because the Guadalupe River was about to overflow.
“I looked out the window and saw the river raging like Niagara Falls,” Randy said. The manager told the couple to drive from the hotel parking lot to the top of the hill, which Schaffer said ended up being Mollie’s “death sentence.”
“He should have unlocked a two-story building at the base of the parking lot and told the guests to go to the second floor,” Randy explained. “Ultimately, every other guest was spared when, minutes later, he unlocked that building, and they went to the second floor. However, we had already left the property in Mollie’s SUV.”
The Schaffers were not able to get far in their car, so Mollie instead pulled over on the shoulder of the road. Soon enough, water starting rising up the door of their car. The car then started floating, hit a tree, and spun onto the road.
“Mollie lowered the front windows and said to dive out feet first. I tried, but my seat was low, the window was high, and I fell back onto the seat,” Randy recalled. “The last words she ever spoke were, ‘You have to push harder.’ I pushed as hard as I could and went out the window.”
Randy was forced underwater by the strong currents. He was pushed into a pole, which he wrapped his arms around and climbed up until he was above water. He held on to that pole for an hour, he said, climbing as the water rose and staying there until the water started to recede. He called out for his wife and tried to find her, but he couldn’t see her or her car. “She had been swept into the river,” Randy wrote.
Mollie’s body was recovered on Sunday, and Randy identified a photo of her wedding band on Monday night.
“Mollie died in a manner consistent with how she lived — selflessly taking care of someone else before she took care of herself,” he wrote. “She wouldn’t leave the car until she was sure that I had done so. She saved my life. It wasn’t my day to die. I wish that it hadn’t been [hers].”
As of Tuesday, Mollie’s body was at the Medical Examiner’s Office in Austin, but her family is trying to transfer it to Houston for funeral arrangements, Randy said. The family hopes to have Mollie’s funeral on Sunday.
“I met Mollie in June of 1967, weeks after we graduated from high school,” Randy recalled, concluding: “We’ve been together ever since, separated only at the end by the raging waters of the Guadalupe River.”
Friends and family took to the comments section of Randy’s Facebook post to share their condolences and kind words about Mollie. She was described as a “brave woman,” “a beautiful force of nature,” and “so beautiful, both inside and out.” She was also called “a beautiful, kind, caring and generous woman,” as well as “just the best: wife, daughter, mother, grandmother and friend to us all.”
Mollie is survived by her husband, her two children — Randy III and Josh — and grandchildren. She is one of at least 120 people who were killed by the flooding in Central Texas that began during the early hours of July 4.
The River Inn Resort and Conference Center did not immediately respond to a voice message request for comment from hotel ownership.
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Report: IDF Probes Whether Houthis Used Iranian Cluster Bomb-Bearing Missile

Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi addresses followers via a video link at the al-Shaab Mosque, formerly al-Saleh Mosque, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
i24 News – The Israeli military said Saturday it launched a probe into the failure of its defenses to fully intercept a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi jihadists, parts of which struck not far from the Ben Gurion airport on Friday night.
According to the Ynet website, one of the hypotheses being examined is that the projectile contained cluster munitions, similar to those used by Iran to fire at Israeli cities during the 12-day war in June. Cluster munitions pose a challenge to interceptors as they disperse smaller explosives over a wide area.
In June, Iran fired several missiles carrying scattered small bombs with the aim of increasing civilian casualties.
The IDF said on Saturday that its initial review suggests the ballistic missile from Yemen likely fragmented in mid-air. Five interceptors from various systems engaged with the missile, including THAAD, Arrow, David Sling & Iron Dome.
Authorities said that shrapnel impacted a house in the central Israeli moshav of Ginaton, yet no one was hurt, with the fragment landing in the house’s backyard.
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Iran Forces Kill Six Militants, IRNA Reports, Israel Link Seen

The Iranian flag is seen flying over a street in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 3, 2023. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Iranian security forces shot dead six militants in a clash in southeastern Iran on Saturday, a day after armed rebels killed five police officers in the restive region, the official news agency IRNA reported.
IRNA said evidence showed the group was linked to Israel and may have been trained by Israel‘s Mossad spy agency. There was no immediate Israeli reaction to the allegation.
Another two members of the militant group were arrested, the report said. All but one of the militants were foreign, it added, without giving their nationality.
Iranian police said this month they had arrested as many as 21,000 suspects during the 12-day war with Israel in June.
Iran’s southeast has been the scene of sporadic clashes between security forces and armed groups, including Sunni militants and separatists who say they are fighting for greater rights and autonomy.
Tehran says some of them have ties to foreign powers and are involved in cross-border smuggling and insurgency.
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Benny Gantz Urges Time-Limited National Unity Government to Further Chances of Hostage Deal

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz attends his party’s meeting at the Knesset, Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
i24 News – Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz on Saturday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition politicians to form a temporary national unity government to further the chances of bringing home the hostages held in Gaza.
Addressing Netanyahu, Yair Lapid and Avigdor Liberman, Gantz said that the proposed government’s two supreme priorities would be the release of Israeli hostages held by the jihadists of Hamas and instituting universal conscription in Israel by ending the exemption from military service enjoyed by the ultra-Orthodox.
Upon attainment of the goals, the government would dissolve and call an election.
“The government’s term will begin with a hostage deal that brings everyone home,” Gantz said in a video address. “Within weeks, we will formulate an enlistment outline that would see our ultra-Orthodox brethren drafted to the military and ease the burden on those already serving. Finally, we will announce an agreed-upon election date in the spring of 2026 and pass a law to dissolve the Knesset [Israeli parliament] accordingly. This is what’s right for Israel.”