\u201cMy Jewish faith is a central part of my entire life,\u201d the flier quotes Israel as saying. \u201cMy late father Sonny Israel fought in the Korean War and became a police officer because he believed in the call from the Talmud that \u2018Whoever saves one life saves an entire world.\u2019 Those words guided my brother and I, as we also became police officers.\u201d<\/p>\n Israel is the sheriff in charge of the area that includes Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17\u00a0 faculty and students were killed by a gunman on Wednesday. Israel\u2019s children, triplets, had attended the school. In a\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0recorded by a local NBC affiliate, he called the mass shooting a \u201chorrific, homicidal, detestable act.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a terrible day for Parkland, Broward County, the state of Florida and the United States,\u201d he told reporters that day. \u201cMy very own triplets went to that school and graduated, in Stoneman Douglas. They played football and lacrosse at that school. It\u2019s just catastrophic. There really are no words.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/eghwqptcyas.exactdn.com\/jbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sfl-ad-watch-sheriff-israel-ad-1.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1\")