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Israel's Unknown Heroes


(Ynet News) Giulio Meotti - There are the maimed military heroes. Some have no legs. Others have no arms. Some are blind. Others suffer from burns all over their bodies. Many have been tortured. Today they work in banana fields and teach at universities. They are architects, writers, lawyers, artists, members of Knesset. Formerly, they were pilots, paratroopers, artillery officers and jeep drivers. And there are the civilian survivors of terror attacks. The Second Intifada produced 17,000 wounded, a figure which in the U.S. is the equivalent of 664,133 injured. They are a microcosm of the unfailing spirit so many in the world associate with being Israeli. Such people epitomize courage and determination, faith and resistance. The writer, a journalist with Il Foglio, is the author of A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism.
2012-03-09 00:00:00
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