A routine ride turns chilling as an Israeli woman encounters a Hezbollah member hiding in Paris.
Shva Dov Coulter, a young Israeli culinary student living in Paris, experienced a shocking encounter during what began as an ordinary taxi ride—an encounter that exposed just how deeply Middle Eastern terror networks have embedded themselves inside Europe.
Coulter recounted to Channel 12 News that she and a visiting friend had ordered a taxi through an app. The driver spoke fluent English—rare for Paris taxis—which encouraged conversation. He even helped them make a reservation for the following day, creating a comfortable atmosphere.
But that changed instantly.
When Coulter casually asked where he was from, the driver replied, “Lebanon.”
She answered honestly, “I’m from Israel.”
His face immediately “turned pale,” she said, and the mood shifted at once.
Sensing tension, she acknowledged his discomfort. That’s when he tried masking hostility with politics, saying he had “no problem with Israelis” but only with Netanyahu and Ben Gvir.
Coulter then asked the question most Israelis would fear asking:
“What do you think of Hezbollah?”
His answer: “I am from Hezbollah.”
For the remaining seven minutes of the ride, she sat beside someone who openly identified as belonging to a recognized terrorist organization—one responsible for thousands of attacks, massacres, kidnappings, and Iran-backed operations against Israel and Jewish communities worldwide.
Despite her fear, Coulter chose courage.
“I felt like I had been sent on a mission,” she said. She spoke about October 7th, telling him she personally lost three friends murdered at the Nova festival—a reminder that Palestinian terror groups and Hezbollah share the same ideology of slaughtering innocents.
Surprisingly, as the ride ended, the driver offered her his phone number “for future rides.”
Coulter and her friend wisely left a fake number.
Her story illustrates a disturbing reality Europe continues to downplay: terror-linked individuals are not hiding in underground cells—they’re driving taxis, delivering food, and blending into crowded cities, empowered by weak oversight and political denial.
For Israelis abroad, encounters like this are a stark reminder that the threats Israel faces do not stop at its borders—and the West ignores them at its own peril.
