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July 20, 2015
- Lenart died on July 20, 2015, at his home in Ra'anana, Israel, of congestive heart failure, at the age of 94.
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Lenart died on July 20, 2015, at his home in Ra'anana, Israel, of congestive heart failure, at the age of 94. He was survived by his wife Rachel, his daughter Michal (who had also served in the Israeli Air Force) and a grandson.
Jul 22, 2015 · Lenart, hailed in Israeli headlines as “the man who saved Tel Aviv,” died Monday at his home in Ra’anana, Israel. He was 94.
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May 29, 2024 · Though devastated by Cohen’s death—“We lost a quarter of our pilots”—Lou understood the immensity of his action. “It was the most important moment of my life,” he’d attest. “I was born to be there at that precise moment in history.”
Jul 21, 2015 · Israeli war hero Lou Lenart, an American fighter pilot who led an Israeli air attack during the War of Independence that fended off an Egyptian raid on Tel Aviv, died Monday at the age of 94.
Lou Lenart was discharged at the end of the war after earning the rank of Captain, and upon returning home found out that 14 members of his extended family in Hungary had been rounded up in Auschwitz and killed by the Nazis.
Jul 22, 2015 · Lou Lenart, who became known as the man who saved Tel Aviv, passed away Monday in his home in Ra anana outside Tel Aviv at age 94.
Jul 23, 2015 · In a long, swashbuckling career, he also helped airlift thousands of Jewish refugees from Iraq to Israel and was compared to the giants of American history.
