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‘Belittling the Abduction of Yemenite Kids Is Like Holocaust Denial’

Actor Yehuda Nehari tells Haaretz about his family’s own kidnapping stories, racism, the sexual assault he experienced as a child and that he does not regret going public with his allegations against major reality TV host Assi Azar

May. 24, 2022 11:41 AM

As he does every year, Yehuda Nahari approached Memorial Day with a painful memory from his military service. He was a platoon sergeant in the Haruv Battalion during the second intifada, when one of his soldiers was killed in a traffic accident during an operation.

“I was the commander of the post and I had a soldier who had just come back from home leave. He really begged me to let him go on the mission, and he was run over and killed by our own forces. By mistake,” he recalls now, 16 years after the incident.

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