Established following the massacre to recognize Israeli civilians who risked their lives to save others, the President’s Medal for Civilian Heroism will be awarded this year to Jews, a Bedouin and a Druze.

Here are the stories of three of this year’s honorees.

Yunis Alkarnawi, 51, a Bedouin from Rahat, hid eight people fleeing the Nova massacre and 24 Thai workers in the farm where he worked. When Hamas terrorists arrived at the farm looking for partygoers, they asked Yunis what he was doing there, and demanded that he let them in and “take out the naked Jews that you’re hiding there,” as he later recalled to Jewish Insider. Insisting that he wasn’t hiding anyone and that he, like the Hamas terrorists, is Muslim, Yunis eventually convinced the terrorists to leave.