Former Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevich received the " Badge of Jewish Valor" in the Kremlin from Russian chief rabbi Berel Lazar who presented the prize with the approval of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Mendelevich said he received the prize "in the name of all the Jews who gave their lives in the last 100 years while promoting the nation, the land and sanctifying G-d's name."