Murdered journalist was Israeli citizen, risked life to practice Judaism in captivity UPDATED

Journalist Stephen Sotloff, who was murdered by ISIS on Tuesday, was a dual Israeli-US citizen, who risked his life in captivity to fast on Yom Kippur and to recite Jewish prayers.


Sotloff made Aliyah
and studied at the IDC. Little information regarding his time in Israel
is known, and after he was captured in Syria it seems any connection to
Israel was deleted from his online presence in