After losing leg in Gaza, Israeli soldier takes on the world’s toughest endurance challenges

“If I want to climb Mount Everest, I will. There are no limits,” Israeli soldier Boris Shtonda, who lost his right leg while fighting in Gaza in November 2023, told JNS on Sunday. On Nov. 1, Shtonda, 29, a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces’ Duvdevan undercover commando unit, completed the New York City Marathon. Shtonda told JNS that he was injured twice, the second time in an explosion at…

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