FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Hero was rejected from military for protesting Gaza retreat
20-year-old Moshe Klessner shot dead terrorist on murderous bulldozer rampage
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Posted: July 03, 2008
1:23 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Moshe Klessner, 18, shoots bulldozer terrorist in image from Haaretz.com video
JERUSALEM ’Äì A heroic off-duty soldier who yesterday shot dead a
terrorist on a murderous rampage was initially rejected from the
Israeli military because he protested Israel's 2005 retreat from the
Gaza Strip, it emerged today.
The soldier, 20-year old Moshe Klessner, was forced to fight in court
to get accepted into the military due to his activism against the
Gaza evacuation.
Shocking video footage obtained by Israel's Haaretz newspaper shows
Klessner climbing onto a bulldozer driven by a terrorist against
traffic and that was plowing into cars, buses and shocked crowds.
Klessner can be seen shooting the terrorist several times in the
head, halting an attack that had already killed three ’Äì including
two female teachers ’Äì and injured 57 others. Klessner had grabbed
the gun of a nearby police officer.
In yesterday's rampage, Jabr Duwait, a 30-year-old Palestinian Arab
resident of eastern Jerusalem, drove the bulldozer on Jerusalem's
popular Jaffa Street. His attack sent pedestrians and bus passengers
fleeing the scene. According to witness accounts, two women tossed
their infants out of a bus window seconds before the bus was
overturned. One of the women was killed in the attack.
Israeli media reports today revealed Klessner, who has thus far
avoided the limelight, recently enlisted in an elite Israel Defense
Forces commando unit after spending two years in court overturning an
IDF decision against drafting him. Klessner had been refused, because
he took part in the protests against Israel's Gaza evacuation.
Klessner is a yeshiva graduate. He has turned down media requests for
interviews but released a statement explaining he interceded in
yesterday's attack "in accordance with the (biblical) precept of
'don't stand by your brother's blood,' even at the risk of getting
hurt."
Apparently heroism runs close to Klessner. His brother-in-law, David
Shapira, a civilian and former soldier, was the man who finally
killed a terrorist gunman in March during a yeshiva massacre in
Jerusalem in which eight students were murdered in cold blood.
Shapira had run into the school while other police officers refused
to engage the terrorist during the gunman's rampage.
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