Putin awarded the Badge of Honor order to Rabbi Yitzhak Kogan.
The Rabbis son, Yosef, a student at the Chabad school wrestled the attacker, is also due to receive an award from the Russian President.
Putin Awards Rabbi for Helping Stop Rampage
MOSCOW, Russia — President Vladimir Putin will confer a state award on a Chabad Rabbi for helping stop a young man who burst into a Moscow synagogue in January 2006 and stabbed nine worshipers, the Kremlin said.
Putin awarded the Badge of Honor order to Rabbi Yitzhak Kogan.
The Rabbis son, Yosef, a student at the Chabad school wrestled the attacker, is also due to receive an award from the Russian President.
Kogan jumped at Alexander Koptsev, at that time 20 years old, after the latter ran amok with a knife in the Synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in central Moscow and helped seize him.
In September last year, the Moscow City Court sentenced Koptsev to 16 years of high-security imprisonment on charges of attempted murder and incitement of ethnic hatred and ordered compulsory psychiatric treatment for him.
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an old man jumps on the young man with the knife to protect the Jews! if it is Yitzhak Kogan, I am not surprised.
YitzchakS
Reb Yitzchok is not as "old" as he might appear in the picture above, but all of his life has been about mesirus nefesh for Yidden and he deserves this award even though he never seeks kovod.
Huh?
Talk about ambiguous grammer.
Why would they give the attacker a award?
And who was twenty years old, the attacker or Kogan