Rabbi Yoel Schwartz is the spiritual leader of the IDF's Nahal Haredi unit.

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On Wednesday night, on Yom Yerushalayim in Ir David, the historic site of King David's palace, the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism was given to three extraordinary leaders: Anita Tucker, Rabbi Yoel Schwartz and Brig.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Making Israel's case

Yoel Zilberman was an officer in one of the IDF's elite commando units who got tired of watching his father - a farmer at Moshav Tzipori in the Western Galilee - despair as Arab gangs from surrounding villages cut his fences, stole his livestock and wrecked his crops.

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The arrest of Yoel Malik, 33, of Brooklyn comes amid mounting pressure to report allegations of abuse within the insular, secretive community, the largest outside Israel, and barely a week after a respected religious counselor in the same sect was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexually abusing a girl.

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