13-year-old critically injured in stabbing celebrates bar mitzvah

Naor Ben-Ezra, who was critically injured when two Palestinian teenagers stabbed him as he rode his bike in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood in October, celebrates his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.

The celebration is attended by members of the medical team who treated him at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital’s pediatric wing.

13-year-old Naor Ben-Ezra carrying a torah scroll as he celebrates his Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, December 17, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Naor tells Ynet that he had been “preparing for this moment for a long time,” and that “from a health perspective, I feel 90-95 percent [healthy].”