True love may triumph despite buffer zones and boundaries. An Austrian army officer attached to the United Nations Emergency Force on the Golan Heights who was sent back to Austria last week and dishonorably discharged for taking a 19-year-old Israeli woman soldier on a ride into Syrian controlled territory, is now in Israel and wants to marry the woman he loves.
Ernest Steinbauer, 25, said he wants to convert to Judaism and has gone to a Tel Aviv rabbi for preparations for conversion. Steinbauer has taken a job as a bartender at a Haifa hotel to wait for the woman who is facing a court martial trial for associating with UN personnel and crossing the line into Syria without permission. The girl’s family has accepted Steinbauer and is treating him like a son. Letters to the editor in Israeli newspapers have been urging the military court to consider the fact that the two young people love each other.
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