Fame was a long walk away, and he made it

The most succinct definition of Professor Shaul Ladany, the world record holder in the 50-mile walk, was made by Tommy Lapid, a few years back when he wrote for Ma'ariv: "He is a survivor. He survived the Holocaust, when he was rescued from Bergen-Belsen by nuns who hid him from the Nazis; he survived the Black September attack in Munich when he slept through the attack at the Olympic Village in which terrorists killed 11 members of the Israeli delegation; and he survived hundreds of tough walking competitions, dozens of kilometers long."

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