The Bnei Brak city council is slated to discuss a proposal to name a street after the late Staff Sgt. Maj. Amir Khoury, who was fatally shot in last week's terrorist attack.
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Khoury, a motorcycle patrolman, was the first person on the scene of the terrorist shooting on the evening of March 29. He immediately engaged the shooter, discharging his own weapon. Khoury was shot and evacuated to Beilinson Medical Center in critical condition, where doctors were forced to declare his death.
If the council adopts the proposal from councilman Yaakov Wieder, it will be the first time that the predominantly Haredi Jewish city names a street after a non-Jew. Khoury, 32 at the time of his death, was a Christian Arab who lived in Nof HaGalil.
Wieder said, "We have an obligation to commemorate his courage and memory, and express all the city's residents' deep appreciation for his heroism."
"Anyone who saves one life, it as if they save an entire universe. The Israeli hero Staff Sgt. Major Khouri sacrificed his life bravely, while determinedly trying to engage the terrorist and bodily preventing the murder of many others. We must commemorate his courage and his memory," Wieder said.
Khoury was one of five people killed in the attack, along with Yaakov Shalom, 36, from Bnei Brak, and Rabbi Avishai Yehezkel, 29, also from Bnei Brak, and two Ukrainian citizens.
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