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Beit Shemesh mayor mourns fallen soldier from city who served in ultra-Orthodox unit
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Beit Shemesh Mayor Shmuel Greenberg mourns the death of Staff Sgt. Moshe Shmuel Noll, 21, of the Kfir Brigade’s ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion, who fell in Gaza on Sunday night.
“This is a very difficult day for the city of Beit Shemesh. Moshe Shmuel was a role model of dedication and heroism. A true warrior who fell…while on his mission for the people of Israel. The entire city mourns with the Noll family and embraces them at this difficult time,” says Greenberg.
Greenberg, a Haredi IDF veteran, represents the ultra-Orthodox Degel Hatorah faction, whose Knesset representatives have fought tooth and nail to block ultra-Orthodox conscription.
Four out of the five soldiers killed by last night’s roadside bomb in Beit Hanoun belonged to the IDF’s Netzah Yehuda battalion, a unit established to provide an accommodating environment for Haredi soldiers.
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