(Times of Israel) Staff Sgt. (res.) Sahar Elbaz, an American-born soldier in the Israel Defense Forces who served in the 2014 Gaza war, was awarded the Nefesh B'Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize in a Knesset ceremony on Monday. During the war, Elbaz was in the Rafah area in Gaza when his unit came under attack by five Hamas fighters armed with assault rifles and grenades. Elbaz ignored an order to take cover and returned fire, killing four of the Hamas fighters.
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