Yanky Fachler
The Schoolboy Who Stopped the Jordanians from Invading Jewish Jerusalem

Five days after Ben-Gurion declared the Jewish State of Israel in May 1948, a major flashpoint was the huge Notre Dame monastery on the seam between the Old and New Cities. As a Jordanian armed column was about to break into Jewish Jerusalem, a blond schoolboy in Notre Dame stopped its advance by throwing a Molotov cocktail at the lead armoured car. For years, no one knew the identity of the schoolboy.