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Settler Grandpa and Druze Border Guard Save the Day

[ Ynet News] Yaakov Asael, a resident of Susiya in southern Mount Hebron, was the one who first shot the terrorist who carried out the bulldozer attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Asael, 53, is an IDF reserve company commander, a father of eight, grandfather of six, and a teacher. "He is a bible teacher and an agriculturalist but has studied judo his whole life," said his daughter Ayelet Recanati. "He grasps things quickly, he has intuition regarding people and he most likely understood what was going on quickly," she added. Border Guard officer Amal Ganem shot and killed the terrorist in the Jerusalem bulldozer attack, bringing the incident to an end. Officer Ganem, who is Druze, said, "The lesson from the previous attack was not to mount the bulldozer....I improved my position and fired at him." Druze community leader Sheikh Muafiek Tarif said: "Ganem, who acted quickly and without hesitation in order to prevent further casualties, is a model to thousands of young Druze who have acted and are acting on behalf of the State of Israel."
2008-07-23 01:00:00
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