https://www.facebook.com/NaftaliBennett/posts/641669442521394:0
Dov Kalmanovitz was the first person to be wounded in a terror attack in the First Intifada. On January 31, 1988, an Arab boy through a petrol bomb at him on the outskirts of Ramallah as he was making his way home.
Kalmanovitz was critically wounded with third-degree burns on 75% of his body. His life was saved when a passing driver stopped and rolled Kalmanovitz in sand, and he was then taken to the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Despite his critical condition he was able to survive and subsequently underwent a long rehabilitation process.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151377#.UmZJkiRFBo8
Naftali Bennet wrote on his Facebook, "People like Dob can sit at home and live off disability and despair. But Dob told me on a bedside that after dozens of surgeries due to his injury, he decided to devote his life to the nation of Israel."
Excerpt from a speech Dov gave in 2010 during the
Dov 57 year old, “The doctors take your age and the extent of the burns and, if the combination exceeds 100, that means you’re not going to live,” explains Kalmanovitz. “I was 31 at the time and had 75 percent burns. You can do the math.”
But survive he did. And while he hovered between life and death, he vowed that if he survived, he would do something for the common good.
http://www.jpost.com/Local-Israel/In-Jerusalem/Mourning-together
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