Survivor of Brussels Airport Bombing Plants a Tree for Peace

12/15/2016
photo: KKL-JNF
“When I was recuperating in the hospital I said that when I went to Israel I would plant a tree for Hassan and his family.”
Nine months after being seriously injured in the terror attack on Brussels Zaventen International Airport on March 22, 2016, Walter Benjamin, who is Jewish, fulfilled his vow to plant a tree in Israel in honor of the man who helped save his life, Hassan Elouafi, a Muslim Belgium citizen whose parents are from Morocco.

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