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Two Americans Honored by Israel for Helping Police Officer during Jerusalem Terror Attack
(Algemeiner) Barney Breen-Portnoy - Two American men were honored at a ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the aid they provided to a police officer during a May 2017 terrorist attack in Jerusalem. After praying at the Western Wall in the Old City, Simche Czin and Mordechai Lichtenstadter - both Jewish residents of Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood - came upon an assailant stabbing policeman Naaman Fares. Lichtenstadter pulled the terrorist off of Fares, who shot the attacker dead. Czin used his tallit to stem Fares' bleeding. "It's fitting that the first non-Israelis to ever receive this citation would be two Americans," said Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer. "America has been the Good Samaritan among nations. There is no nation that has been a greater force for good in the world than the United States of America. And the Jewish people have been blessed that this great and powerful and just country has been by our side."