'In every moment, I knew I could be shot at,' says Lt. Col. (res.) Eyal Dror, head of the Good Neighbor initiative that operated in Syria between 2016 and 2018 in which Israel risked much, saved thousands of Syrians -- and gained significantly in return; 'I met with rebel leaders, and they worked for our security,' adds Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, who commanded the Northern Command during the civil war'We transferred a nine-year-old girl with Type 1 diabetes for treatment in an Israeli hospital back in 2016. One day, I met her and I was talking to her mother waiting for the doctor when the girl asked me, 'How do you draw an Israeli flag?' I explained. She asked for a marker and a sheet of paper and started drawing a Star of David. It wasn't working out for her. She started getting annoyed and disappointed. It took her nine tries. At the top, she wrote 'Wiam ❤️ Abu Yaakov,' the name by which the Syrians knew me. This sums up the whole 'Good Neighbor' story: A girl from an enemy state, dedicating a drawing to an Israeli officer who saved her life.'