Benny Gantz forgets tefillin, borrows from Boro Park shop owner
The bookshop owner gave him his tefillin and Gantz donned them and said the Shema and Shemona Esrei prayers before returning the tefillin.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFBlue and White leader Benny Gantz dons tefillin at Zurich Airport, Jan. 2020(photo credit: BOROPARK24.COM)
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz forgot his tefillin at home while in the US and had to borrow a pair from a Jewish bookshop owner in Zurich Airport on his way back to Israel, according to news outlet Boro Park 24.Yochonon Berman, the owner of Zundel Berman Books in Brooklyn and Lakewood, New Jersey, was in the airport’s business lounge when he ran into Gantz.“I bumped into him and I asked, ‘Is this Benny Gantz?’ and he said ‘yes,’” said Berman. “Afterwards, he saw me going into the side room to daven [pray], so he came over to me and asked if he could put on tefillin.”The bookshop owner gave him his tefillin and Gantz donned them and said the Shema and Shemonei Esrei before returning the tefillin.Gantz had been in Washington to discuss President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, which was released on Tuesday.
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