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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: A Hezbollah rocket put this Canadian IDF soldier in intensive care. His parents are asking for prayers
Description: When the Israel Defense Forces announced on July 24 that one of their soldiers was badly wounded by Hezbollah rocket fire aimed at an army base in Northern Israel, they didn't disclose the young man's identity. But his parents want the Jewish community to know.
Just before they flew to be with him at his hospital bedside, the parents of Ben Brown, asked members of their community in Toronto to begin praying for their son's recovery.
Now Jews in Canada and around the world are keeping the 20-year-old student in their prayers. Ben was raised in...