Letter reveals fallen soldier’s final words before Six-Day War

A poignant handwritten letter from Shlomo Apstein to his parents, written days before his death in the 1967 Six-Day War, has been discovered. Apstein died shielding his wounded comrade Yosef Chaghuel with his body; the letter had been preserved in his mother’s wallet until her death.

Sources: Israel Hayom

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