Jerusalem Post reports:
Businessman Adi Gast, 65, who lives in Israel, and his son David, 30, who lives in New York, will grant $5,000 to any security guard or concerned citizen who prevents terrorist attacks.
On Sunday, their representative, attorney Mordechai Tzivin, went to the Druse town of Yanuh in the Galilee to present a check to Rimal Saif – the widow of policeman Zidan Saif, who died from wounds he sustained while stopping the terrorist attack in the capital’s Har Nof neighborhood last week.
The elder Gast earned his fortune in Eastern Europe. He made news in June 2012 when he pledged a sum of €10 million to fight a German ruling that declared circumcisions illegal.
Tzivin said he had received a warm welcome from Rimal Saif, her father and her father-in-law, who told him they were thankful for the outpouring of support from haredi mourners who attended Zidan’s funeral and from people like the Gasts.
“I am touched, not just by the amount, but by the thoughtfulness of this saintly man who did such a good deed,” she said. “This proves once again the connection in blood between the Jewish people and the Druse.”
Does the government have a fund to help the families of those slain in service of the country?
What a Kiddush Hashem
So pleased about this gift. Maybe there should be a bigger one given for his children?
The fact that one man (others too I’m sure) is not giving up our battle and is using what he has to make a difference in the world.
are descended from the family of Yisro, so in fact it is true we are blood brothers and their hero son gave his life to save Jews from sick killers. I hope the shul in Har Nof puts up a plaque to remember the victims and the hero policeman who went in without a vest only thinking to stop the bloodshed. Yehi Zichro baruch….
thank you!!!