Several hundred family members, friends, Knesset members and Israel Defense Forces soldiers gathered at the Oz VeGaon Nature Preserve in Gush Etzion on Sept. 28 for the annual Lion of Zion prize in memory of renowned Israel advocate Ari Fuld, on his seventh yahrzeit.

Fuld, 45, who was born in New York and immigrated to Israel in 1994, was murdered by an Arab teenager in 2018, several days before Yom Kippur, outside a mall near the Gush Etzion Junction. With his last breaths, he managed to chase down, shoot and neutralize the terrorist, preventing even greater carnage, before succumbing to his wounds.

This year’s prize was awarded to Avi Abelow, Fuld’s friend since childhood and a prominent Israel advocate in his own right, for his work in carrying out Fuld’s legacy through his Pulse of

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