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Jul 2, 2010 · No doubt the scene will seem like a fantasy for Lenart, 89, looking back at his arrival in the United States as Lajos Lenovitz, a 10-year-old farmboy from a small Hungarian village near the...
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.
Jan 9, 2007 · Four faltering planes went out on the mission and managed to block the Egyptians against all odds. 58 years later, Lou Lenart, who was a pilot in that attack in 1948 and is now a Hollywood...
Jul 16, 2012 · Touted as the “man who saved Tel Aviv,” the 91-year-old Lenart recalls the fateful events of May 29, 1948 with great emotion and down to the smallest of details.
May 29, 2024 · Lou Lenart, a hero much bigger than any screen. Here was a man to whom Israel and the Jewish people owe so much yet who received so little recognition in return. A soldier whose example of valor and selflessness is followed, however unknowingly, by the myriad Israelis defending our country today.
Jul 26, 2023 · When he passed away in Ra’anana on July 20, 2015 at age 94, Lenart’s funeral at Kefar Nachman Cemetery was attended by many high-ranking officers of the Israeli Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps.
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.
