Today, 73 year old Yehuda Wachsman passed away.
He became known to the Israeli public under tragic circumstances.
In 1994, #Hamas kidnapped his son Nachson and after 6 days murdered him during a failed attempt the IDF made to rescue him.
May their memories be a blessing.
12 years after Yehuda’s son was kidnapped and murdered, #Hamas kidnapped another Israeli soldier - Gilad Shalit. Shalit was held in captivity for more than 5 years until he was finally released after a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas was reached >>
1,027 Palestinian prisoners, among them many murderers sentenced to life, were released in exchange for one Israeli.
One of those murderers was the one who murdered Nachshon Wachsman >>
Yehuda, who passed away today, agreed to release his son’s murderer from prison so an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, will be free.
In the memory of Yehuda Wachsman, please watch this interview he gave in 2014, when #Hamas kidnapped 3 Israeli teenagers. In the interview, he’s asked why he’s not paying a visit to the parents of the 3 boys. Here:
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“That’s because they’ll immediately be reminded of how it ended for us. And they’ll lose hope. I’ll visit them after the boys come back. Then we’ll celebrate together.” >>
He didn’t know that by that time #Hamas had already murdered 16 year old Naftali Frenkel, 16 year old Gilad Shaer and 19 year old Eyal Yifrah.
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