A journalist for a far-left Israeli socialist newspaper, Oded was a fluent Arabic speaker and vociferous advocate for Gazan rights. So much so that he volunteered for a decade with “Road to Recovery” to personally transport children from Gaza (where there were 36 hospitals) to Israel for the best medical care. Tomorrow, he’s coming home from Gaza in a body bag, betrayed and murdered by the very people he fought so ardently for. May his memory be a blessing. And a lesson.

Alan Shatter @Alan__Shatter Oded Lifshitz, an 83-year-old who helped found Kibbutz Nir Oz, was a lifelong peacenik and Palestinian rights

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