Sharpshooter
Recalls Battle
for Israeli
Independence SELAH MAYA ZIGHELBOIM | JE STAFF
I n the 1840s, Moishe Zvi Lewensohn heard that the Messiah
would soon come, and he moved to a small piece of land in the
Middle East — then called Palestine under Turkish rule — to
await the arrival.

He never saw the Messiah, but a century later, his
great-great-granddaughter helped transform that small piece of
the Middle East into a country for the Jewish people.

Bella Lewensohn Schafer, 90, served as a sharpshooter and an
officer in charge of a battalion of women during the Israeli War
of Independence.

Getting married, having children — those were once-in-a-
lifetime occasions, but fighting for Israeli’s independence was
more than that, she said.

“I’m part of Israel history,” said Schafer, a member of Temple
Beth Zion-Beth Israel and an honorary member of Congregation
Rodeph Shalom.

Schafer was born in Israel in 1928, so when the war against
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