HERO HONORED BY WHITE HOUSE MENORAH

White House Menorah Honors Hero Student (New York Jewish Week)
The menorah lit on the first night of Hannukah on the White House lawn in Washington was built to honor the memory of Noam Apter, a 23-year-old yeshiva student in Israel who was murdered while preventing a wider terrorist attack. Apter locked himself and three other student workers in the Otniel Yeshiva kitchen in Hebron with two rifle-toting Islamic Jihad terrorists dressed as Israeli soldiers to prevent them from entering the dining room where 70 students were eating a Sabbath meal. After the four students were killed, Israeli soldiers heard the gunfire and chased down the terrorists.