"Israel's main Holocaust memorial centre has for the first time nominated an Arab to be recognised as a "righteous gentile" for saving Jewish lives.
He is said to have sheltered Jews on his land during the Nazi occupation.
Contemporary accounts say Mr Abdulwahab, who had a role co-ordinating with the German army in his hometown of Mahdia, got wind of a plan to rape a Jewish women and put others in a brothel.
He is said to have taken about two dozen Jews, including the intended victims, to his farm near and looked after them there until the end of the occupation."
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