Los Angeles, CA – The Simon Wiesenthal Center honored the Muslim shop assistant who hid Jewish shoppers at the kosher market in Paris during a hostage crisis in January, reports Mynewsla.com (http://bit.ly/19lv1Xy).
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Lassana Bathily, a Malian-born Muslim shop assistant, was honored with the Medal of Valor at the center’s annual National Tribute Dinner at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. He is one of two living recipients of the Medal of Valor. The other living recipient, Kevin Vickers, is Canada’s ambassador to Ireland. As sergeant at arms of Canada’s House of Commons, he shot and killed a gunman who killed a guard at the Canadian National War Memorial.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization that fights anti-Semitism worldwide.
Filmmaker Harvey Weinstein received the center’s highest award – the Humanitarian Award – for supporting the center and its Museum of Tolerance.
DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg was the dinner’s master of ceremonies.
This is a kiddush Hashem. Boruch Hashem!
A metal is nice. But even the Nobel prize comes with a cash payment. I really hope dreamworks and Harvey Weinstein scraped their pennies together and gave this man a nice cash payment. Let the world know when you help save jewish lives we show proper appreciation.
Yes I raise my hat for this man, kol hakavod