Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz on Wednesday evening commented on the tragedy in Nahariya when 38-year-old Moti Ben Shabbat drowned while attempting to rescue several people from floods.
"A hero of Israel. He did not fight in battle or against terrorists. Moti Ben Shabbat today saw a family drowning in the stream that overflowed in Nahariya and did not think twice and jumped to save them at a terrible cost of his own life. Devotion in the full sense of the word," Rabbi Peretz wrote on Twitter.
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