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Yaish Giat, a Yemen-born Mori and spice shop owner, will serve as the torchbearer for Israel s 73rd Independence Day Ceremony. (Courtesy)
Yaish Giat, a 102-year-old spice shop owner, will serve as torchbearer for Israel’s 73rd Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony, one of the annual highlights of the national holiday.
The beacons will be dedicated to immigrants from Yemen, cabinet ministers announced in a statement Monday.
Giat termed the news a “big surprise.”
“People say it is a great honor. I do not know,” he told the Ynet news site. “When I raise the torch I will wish that our nation love one another, that people will respect one another for the benefit of the Land of Israel.”
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