World Israel News JUN 2, 2024
ICYMI: WATCH: IDF soldier carries bloodstained WWII prayer shawl into battle in Gaza
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Matan Peleg, chairman of the Zionist group Im Tirtzu, carries his great-grandfather’s bloodstained prayer shawl, taken from battle against the Nazis, into Gaza.
An IDF soldier deployed to the Gaza Strip brought a bloodstained World War II-era Jewish prayer shawl with him into battle to mark Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Matan Peleg, chairman of the Zionist activist group Im Tirtzu, displayed the bloodied tallit, or Jewish prayer shawl, which he received from his great-grandfather, in a video on social media Tuesday.
Peleg, 43, said his great-grandfather recovered the prayer shawl from a fallen comrade while fighting Nazi soldiers during the war.
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