Ben-Zion Leitner

Ben-Zion Leitner was an Israeli soldier, who received the nation's highest military decoration, the Hero of Israel citation, for heroism during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Career

He led an assault that blew up of a bunker at a police position in Iraq Suwaydan, in which half of his face became paralysed. He was a native of Odessa