Rabbi Yehuda Glick, the Jewish rights activist who was shot multiple times at point blank range just a few weeks ago, received a human rights award on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Glick received the award from the Israeli Zionist organization Im Tirtzu at the Second Zionist Conference.
Glick was shot on Oct. 29 by Islamic Jihad member Motaz Hejazi after leaving a meeting at which the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount was discussed. Glick was shot right outside of the Menachem Begin Center in Jerusalem, where the meeting had taken place.
Hejazi walked up to Glick, asked him to identify himself, shot Glick repeatedly, then took off on a motorbike. Hejazi was employed at the restaurant in the Begin Center, despite having been imprisoned in Israel for 11 years for terrorism offenses.
Hejazi was later killed in a shootout with police at his home in Abu Tor, a mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Glick’s recovery is considered by many to be a miracle, and his attendance at a public function a mere six weeks after such a brush with death even more so.