A 24-year-old immigrant from Florida was the first American-born Israeli soldier to die in Lebanon since Israel’s invasion of that country, it was announced this week by the United Jewish Appeal.
Relatives told the Orlando Jewish weekly, “Heritage,” that the soldier — Jerry Wolf — had gone to Israel in 1979 “to find an important cause.” He lived with an Israeli family for three years at a moshav called Neir Bonim. His adopted family had a son about his age, to whom he had grown very close. Friends said the son died in Lebanon only one day before Wolf was killed. The two were buried at the moshav.
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