Who are your heroes?

What is a hero?

"A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed  his or her life"

106 years ago today, 100 people participate in a lottery to equally divide the 12-acre plot of sand dunes they've purchased.  The land would later become the city of Tel Aviv, Israel. https://www.facebook.com/theisraelproject?fref=ts

The people in the above picture are heroes, they stood up and worked hard for something they believe in, nobody was interested in Israel when it was just sand dunes, and now that it is a thriving land and society, there is a conflict.

As we are finished with our Passover holiday, where we relive the slavery and ultimately being led to freedom and becoming a nation, I am reading articles about brave souls that risked their lives to save Jewish people in their countries. Saving lives and helping people is how it should be, and these stories give me hope that in our world of extremes, good people are everywhere.

FRANCE:

"Of course, he was offended when someone insulted his prophet, but he believed violence was the wrong response. He’d learned that punishment was God’s domain, not man’s. How could fellow Muslims have strayed so far from that message?"

http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/lassana_bathily_the_muslim_who_saved_french_jews_in_hyper_cacher

SARAJEVO:

"During the Holocaust, the manuscript was hidden from the Nazis by the museum’s chief librarian and by a Muslim cleric. It also survived in an underground bank vault during the siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces." 

http://www.jewishjournal.com/culture/article/the_sarajevo_haggadahs_historic_journey_set_to_music

DENMARK:

'The response from Danish society was overwhelming. According to Danish historian Bo Lidegaard, everyone from church leaders to politicians to simple fishermen helped the Jews escape. King Christian X wrote in his diary that he considered “our own Jews to be Danish citizens, and the Germans could not touch them.”'

http://jewishhomelablog.com/2015/03/02/denmarks-jews-why-they-refuse-to-leave/

My parents are my personal heroes, I ran across this story that talks about Russian Jews that left the Soviet Union with very little money and no language, so their kids would have a good life. This is exactly my story, luckily my parents came with an open and positive mind and a strong work ethic, told us we can do and be anything we set our minds to.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/anton_yelchin_explores_extramarital_loves_time_slot_in_5_to_7.

Who are your heroes?
Coach Yulia