Photo Credit: Yehuda Eisenstark

This is a Haredi young man with his Mauser rifle (popularly known as the Czech rifle, after the country that produced it). The picture was taken on April 13, 1948, in Jerusalem by renowned photographer Yehuda Eisenstark.

Nuff said.


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Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.